EMC’s HAVT utility tip
If you’ve launched the High Availability Verification Tool before from Unisphere, you might have seen a similar “does not support high availability” message. If everything checked out fine…
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Drobo iSCSI SAN Discount courtesy of Tech Field Day
If you remember my trip to Tech Field Day, Data Robotics was one of the companies we went to see. Data Robotics is the creator of the Drobo…
EMC’s Low Cost SAN Starter for VMware (Iomega)
Stephen Foskett gave us a teaser last night at the VMware Community Roundtables about an announcement of a low cost SAN solution for VMware labs or small environments. …
Deciding between RDMs or the MS iSCSI Initiator
Chris Hahn and I recently put together what we thought were the pros and cons for attaching a LUN to ESX and then using RDMs or just attaching…
iSCSI – Hardware or Software – How many TOEs do you have?
More and more of my new implementations of VMware Infrastructure are being connected to iSCSI SANs (EMC, LeftHand, and Equallogic) and the question has come up about whether…
Creating a LUN on an EMC NS20 Celerra Filer
Creating a LUN on an EMC NS20 Celerra Filer – Screen grabs by John Simon To leverage enterprise features of VMware such as DRS, vMotion and HA, shared…
HOWTO: Create a LUN on NetApp Filer for VMware
To leverage enterprise features of VMware such as DRS, vMotion and HA, shared storage must be allocated to all ESX server on the network. The process of creating…