Ok, i’ll admit it…i’ve had serious lab withdrawals since having to give up the awesome Zettagrid Labs. Having a lab to tinker with goes hand in hand with being able to generate tech related content…point and case, my new homelab got delivered on Monday and I have been working to get things setup so that I […] Read More
Free Guide: Building NetApp ONTAP 9 Lab
In computing, there is one thing you shouldn’t compromise on…and that thing is storage. This carries over to Lab or NestedESXi environments as poor lab performance can be just as frustrating as production performance issues. I’ve used a number of nested storage platform’s for my lab environments and I’m always on the lookout for alternative solutions. […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 3
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading From 6.1 To 6.2 Hybrid To All Flash – Part 2
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and with the price of SSDs continuing to fall and an expanding HCL it seems like All Flash instances are becoming more the norm and for those that have already deployed VSAN in a Hybrid configuration the temptation to upgrade […] Read More
VSAN Upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 Hybrid to All Flash – Part 1
When VSAN 6.2 was released earlier this year it came with new and enhanced features and depending on what version you where running you might not have been able to take advantage of them all right away. Across all versions, Software Checksum was added with Advanced and Enterprise versions getting VSANs implementation of Erasure Coding (RAID 5/6) with Deduplication and Compression available for the […] Read More
VSAN 6.2 + DELL PERC: Important Certified Driver Updates
As many of us rejoiced at the release of VSAN 6.2 that came with vSphere 6 Update 2…those of us running DELL PERC based storage controllers where quickly warned of a potential issues and where told to not upgrade. VMwareKB 2144614 referenced these issues and stated that the PERC H730 and FD332 found in DELL […] Read More
It’s A Good Book! – vSphere Design Pocketbook 3.0
Last week Frank Denneman blogged about the release of the third installment of the vSphere Design Pocketbook. This is a great initiative from PernixData and Frank which gives bloggers the chance to have certain posts published in the form of an book of which gets distributed at industry events around the world, including EMC World and […] Read More
Preserving VSAN + DELL PERC Critical Drivers after ESXi 6.0 CBT Update
Last week VMware released a patch to fix another issue with Change Block Tracking (CBT) which took the ESXi 6.0 Update 1 Build to 3247720. The update bundle contains a number of updates to the esx-base including the resolution of the CBT issue. This patch updates the esx-base VIB to resolve an issue that occurs […] Read More
VSAN for Service Providers
Since VMworld in San Francisco, VMware have been on a tear backing up all the VSAN related announcements at the show by starting to push a stronger message around the improvements in the latest VSAN release. Cormac Hogan and Rawlinson Rivera have published articles while Duncan Epping has also released a number of articles around VSAN since […] Read More
Quick Tip: Re-IP VNX5300 …or any VNX
Our Operations Team where faced with an unfamiliar situation a few weeks back where we needed to re-ip an EMC VNX5300 that had it’s warranty extended and was relocated to a new Availability Zone. Generally once warranty terms and finance expire old SANs like this get returned to sender to be replaced by a newer […] Read More