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I'm curious if you've looked at the upcoming View Adapter for vCenter Operations...something I'm pretty excited about for aiding troubleshooting.
Commented Mar 20, 2012 on Telling It Like It Is - 10 VDI Lessons from the Real World at VMware SMB Blog
Telling It Like It Is - 10 VDI Lessons from the Real World
Guest Blog Post By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College "Don’t sugarcoat it, tell it to me straight." People are always saying that, but almost never when they're expecting delight. The truth is, if you want drastic change, you need to set your expectations high and anticipate discoveries ...
A bit of a different question.....if you want to dedicated (2) vmkernels to iSCSI traffic and a separate vmkernel to NFS traffic, is it possible to keep iSCSI from using all 3 vmkernels and just use 2? It seems like it should be (possibly via non-routable IP subnets on top of the same VLAN) but I keep seeing more paths than should be there.
Commented Aug 23, 2010 on Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1 at The Virtual Storage Guy
Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here's a quick summary of what's new in version 2.1: vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) Storage I/O Control New Performance Counters for NFS Datastores Virtual...
This is a question I get from customers periodically (I'm a VAR engineer). Basically it's more just a "heads up" message....consider it confirmation that dedup is doing what you want it to.
What I generally recommend to customers is that as you start to get higher and higher dedup ratios leave more free space in the datastore -- you're saving so much space there's no need to skimp.
Generally speaking on larger NFS datastores (500 GB and above) I recommend leaving at least 20% free if not maybe 25% as you start to see better dedup and/or thin provisioning savings.
Commented Aug 9, 2010 on NFS, VMware, and Unintended Consequences! at The Virtual Storage Guy
NFS, VMware, and Unintended Consequences!
When it comes to storage interconnects for VMware deployments I'm rather biased; unified multi-protocol storage platforms like NetApp FAS should be the ONLY consideration for any sizable installation. Unified multi-protocol platforms allow for customers to receive the benefits of both NAS (NFS) a...
Ditto on the administrator comment - to be more precise, make sure you "run as administrator" when launching the .msi file.
Commented Jul 27, 2010 on Virtual Storage Console 2.0 is Available for Download at The Virtual Storage Guy
Virtual Storage Console 2.0 is Available for Download
This morning NetApp released our unified vCenter plug-in for VMware vSphere the Virtual Storage Console 2.0 (aka the VSC2). Customers running NetApp FAS or 3-party storage arrays virtualized with vSeries can download the VSC via NOW. (click to view at full size) Last week I shared many of the ...
What is your general answer for people concerned about PCoIP support?
Commented Apr 27, 2010 on Why VMware reps should embrace Pano Logic to spur desktop virtualization sales at By The Bell
Why VMware reps should embrace Pano Logic to spur desktop virtualization sales
"We want to massively change the adoption cycle of desktop virtualization" Bryan Cox, EVP Worldwide field Operationsfor Pano Logic We've seen some VMware reps in certain regions across the country as being resistant to even mentioning Pano Logic. Because the zero client devices can utilize t...
Speaking as someone who's company is a VMware/EMC partner but not Cisco (or more generally, for anyone is a partner for one or two of three), how exactly will things work? (at least at a general level)
Commented Nov 13, 2009 on Virtual Compute Environment – Vblock Partner Ecosystem at Virtual Geek
Virtual Compute Environment – Vblock Partner Ecosystem
This is one of a 5 post series on the VCE coalition announcement, what’s in it, and what it means. You can see all the posts together here. Our partner ecosystem is very, very, VERY important to Cisco, EMC and VMware. As we looked at all the models of what we could do – making sure that it wa...
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"These tools do something in common - before the array snap, optionally they invoke the ESX snap to ensure that the VM can be restarted - otherwise its a "crash consistent" replica. "Crash consistent" just means it's in a "non clean shudown state". Not terrible, but not great. I know this is an optional setting in RM, and believe that to be the case with SMVI, though am not sure (any NetApp folks want to confirm?)."
You're correct -- tis an option in SMVI.
Commented Aug 8, 2009 on HOWTO - VMware-Integrated, and Application-Integrated Array Replicas at Virtual Geek
HOWTO - VMware-Integrated, and Application-Integrated Array Replicas
I often get asked about whether array writeable snapshots can be used to accelerate VM image deployments or as an instant backup/restore mechanism for VMs and datastores. I also get asked - can you do array snapshots with VMware-integration to make sure they are restartable images? Simple answ...
For the NetApp interconnect, twould be Infiniband (I wasn't sure if this is confidential info but a quick Google on "netapp infiniband" turns it up nicely).
Commented Jul 6, 2009 on VMware I/O queues, “micro-bursting”, and multipathing at Virtual Geek
VMware I/O queues, “micro-bursting”, and multipathing
Was in Singapore this last week and was talking with the VMware SEs and Cisco SEs there – sharing best practices, tools, and “dos and don’ts”. There was an interesting discussion/whiteboard around the topic of storage network design around FC/FCoE (though this applies to iSCSI as well). The ...
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