Storage

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2024

Run AI on your Synology

A ways back, Synology was kind enough to send me a DS923+ to test out. I’ve used a DS1817+ in my lab for quite some time now, so a …
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2018

Can't mount NFS volume in vSphere

Yesterday, I was working with Veeam Availability Orchestrator .next beta, and ran into a fun issue. During a Recovery plan test, the VMs are …
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How to install Nutanix CE on VMware

Nutanix CE, or Community Edition, is the free community supported hypervisor of Nutanix. Nutanix CE allows you to create a hyper-converged …
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Veeam Architecture in a HPE Datacenter

While out at HPE’s Discover 2018, I wanted to talk about what Veeam architecture would look like in a HPE datacenter. This …
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Synology in the Homelab – NFS 3 vs 4.1

Recently, I purchased a Synology 1817+ to be used as storage for my homelab. Previously, I was using an older, and much slower Synology, …
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2017

Nothing but ClearSky Ahead

This last week, I was fortunate enough to attend a Tech Field Day event, in Boston, Massachusetts. During the event, ClearSky invited us to …
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Veeam Architect - Repository Types

In the previous Veeam Architect post, we talked about the different transport modes available to move our data from the production VMs, into …
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2016

Secondary Storage is Cohesity's Primary Goal

Cohesity is a company I had heard of before but really didn’t know anything about. Thankfully, this week during Tech Field Day 12, I …
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Time to bring back the middleman

Who is the middle man? In a lot of circles, the middle man is someone that is a threat. The man in the middle attacker, the one who takes …
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All Your Protocols Are Belong To Us

In the storage wars, we typically hear about block vs file, iSCSI vs Fibre Channel, SAN vs NAS, and so on. The truth is, none of that really …
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Why VSAN All-Flash is the right choice

VMware’s HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) solution is VSAN - or Virtual SAN. It’s a kernel based solution built right into …
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2015

Veeam and DataDomain using DD Boost

In a previous article , I talked about how to setup Veeam to use a linux proxy, to transfer data via NFS to an EMC DataDomain to increase …
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2014

Data Domain Replication issues

Recently, I had a pair of Data Domains that were having replication issues. After the offsite was seeded, and taken to it’s location - …
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EVO:RAIL - Installation

Here at VMworld 2014, one of the hands on labs was the new EVO:Rail. The lab walks through the process of the installation and then creating …
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VMware's new product: EVO:RAIL

At VMworld this morning, VMware announced it’s latest product, EVO:RAIL . So just what is EVO:RAIL? EVO:RAIL is a hyper-converged …
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Veeam and DataDomain

I’ve done a fair amount of installs of this combination, Veeam and EMC’s DataDomain deduplication device. The solution is a …
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VSAN - Overview

This is part 1 in a new series covering VMware VSAN. Stay tuned for more! VMware VSAN (Virtual SAN) is a new storage offering from VMware, …
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2013

Veeam and Server 2012 DeDuplication

With a wide range of deduplication appliances out there for a backup target, one option is simply server 2012. Server 2012 has a …
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Tech Field Day VMworld - Asigra and Simplivity

**This article got lost in my Drafts folder, but I wanted to make sure to publish as a lot of work went into putting on these events from …
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HP P2000 G3 and VAAI with vSphere 5.0 and 5.1

HP’s P200 has been around a little while, and has had a bit of improvements done with firmware updates. While adding VAAI support to a …
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2012

vSphere 5.1 Lab - HP StoreVirtual VSA Install

Next, I needed some shared storage to eventually present to my nested ESXi servers. I decided to use HP’s StoreVirtual VSA (Formerly …
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EMC VNXe 3100 - An Introduction

Recently, I got my hands on the EMC vnxe 3100. It’s a great SAN solution for SMBs, and very easy to setup and administer. Having …
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vSphere VSA Raid requirements relaxed!

Today VMware announced on it’s blog that the RAID 1o requirements will be dropped, and that VMware will be supporting RAID 5 and RAID …
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2011

vSphere 5 VSA – Virtual San Appliance – Part 3

Management and Maintenance As if getting the VSA installed wasn’t easy enough, VMware has made the VSA virtually (no pun intended) …
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vSphere 5 VSA – Virtual San Appliance – Part 2

Installation and Configuration Now it’s time to install the VSA. Remember, we need 2 (or 3) fresh ESXi 5.0 installs, joined to our …
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vSphere 5 VSA - Virtual San Appliance - Part 1

With the release of vSphere 5, comes VMware’s VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance). What exactly is it? Well, it’s VMware’s …
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Microsft iSCSI Target 3.3 now available for 2008 R2

Microsoft released their iSCSI target software earlier this month for Windows Server 2008 R2. This used to be only for windows 2008 Storage …
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