Storage remains one of the largest bottlenecks in today’s virtualized environments. Even with the improved performance over our old time friend, the spinning rust provided by Solid State Drives (SSD) and Non-Volatile Memory (NVMe), we must stay ever vigilant to… Continue Reading
Installing a NAS in your home lab is a great way to up your game at home. There are a lot of options available these days ranging from a few hundred dollars like the Synology DS216 2 bay NAS,… Continue Reading
VMware’s Site Recovery Manager is your automated disaster recovery run book. You can replicate your virtual machines using vSphere replication, or you can let your storage arrays do the heavy lifting. In this demonstration we’ll configure SRM 6.1 with 3PAR… Continue Reading
Have you ever seen a datastore that’s larger than its underlying LUN? Recently, we’ve been working with another team of administrators to migrate some critical applications to VMware. Because of the unique storage requirements around one application, we’ve ended up with many datastores to… Continue Reading
I have to start this post with a warning to run this script at your own risk. If you’re careful and know exactly what you’re doing, this can be very useful. Misuse of this script can cause data corruption and unnecessary outages. So… Continue Reading