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Setup Guide for Multiple NetApp ONTAP 8.1 Simulators
I have written previously on deploying the ONTAP simulator on a vSphere host, and they seem to be some of my more popular posts. Now that the ONTAP 8.1 simulator has been released, I thought I would do an updated post that is a little more comprehensive than my previous posts. In my most recent [...]
NetApp Introduces New Controllers
One of the more popular controllers (at least, in my experience) that NetApp offered was the FAS250/FAS270. From the front it looked like a standard DS14 disk shelf, but in the back it contained controller module(s). You could deploy it as a single controller, or in a HA pair and it made a great option [...]
NetApp
Setup Guide for Multiple NetApp ONTAP 8.1 Simulators
I have written previously on deploying the ONTAP simulator on a vSphere host, and they seem to be some of my more popular posts. Now that the ONTAP 8.1 simulator has been released, I thought I would do an updated post that is a little more comprehensive than my previous posts. In my most recent [...]
NetApp Introduces New Controllers
One of the more popular controllers (at least, in my experience) that NetApp offered was the FAS250/FAS270. From the front it looked like a standard DS14 disk shelf, but in the back it contained controller module(s). You could deploy it as a single controller, or in a HA pair and it made a great option [...]
On my way to NetApp Insight 2011
I’m off to the airport for NetApp Insight 2011, which allows me to trade the 50 degree Minnesota temperatures right now for what looks to be a week of low 80 degree temperatures. For me one of the big focus areas this year is to dig into ONTAP 8.1 cluster mode, which NetApp has said [...]
CommVault
Removing VM snapshots left by CommVault or NetApp
Since I tend to focus on CommVault and NetApp this post is mentioning those two products in particular, but if you’ve used any VM level backup product that quiesces the VM prior to taking the backup – you have likely seen that these VMware snapshots aren’t always removed by the application. I’ve seen a few [...]
CommVault SnapProtect with NetApp NFS Volumes
Introduction One of the newer features of CommVault Simpana is the ability to perform SnapProtect backups for various applications such as Exchange, SQL or VMware. This post will focus on VMware and specifically on virtual machines that are on a NFS datastore hosted on a NetApp storage array. If you aren’t familiar with SnapProtect it [...]
VMware
VMWVCaaS: VMworld Video Converting as a Service
Stupid title aside, one of the things I’ve done in the past is downloaded all of the VMworld sessions and convert them so I can play them on my iPad/Apple TV devices. Based on some Twitter conversations last year it seemed like a number of people do the same thing – rather than everything spending [...]
VMworld 2011 Day 3 Wrap Up
Today was a little lighter on new content as most of the big announcements were made yesterday during the keynote. I’ve written in the past about using an iPad more and more during my workday, and I took the opportunity today to visit the end user computing booth in the solutions exchange and talk with [...]
VMworld 2011 Day 2 Wrap Up
Day two started out with a keynote from Steve Herrod, which was one of the best VMware keynotes I have seen. I thought he did a great job not only on the simplicity of the presentation (whiteboard style pictures and not text heavy PowerPoint slides) but also on the content and delivery. He talked about [...]
Apple
Home Lab Tip: TextExpander
TextExpander is a tool I’ve had installed on my Macbook Pro for awhile now, but never really utilized it all that often (other than the built-in spelling corrections I only had 1 or two custom expansions configured). Recently I started using it more and I think it can be very helpful in home lab environments [...]
Deploying Apple OS X virtual machines in vSphere 5
When I saw the announcement that OSX would be an officially supported guest OS for vSphere 5, I was pretty excited. Being an Apple fan and a home lab guy, my first thought was I could run Snow Leopard as a VM and treat it as a centralized iTunes server. It was announced that it [...]
Replacing Optical Drive with Second Hard Drive on MacBook Pro
Previously I had blogged about replacing my 7200 RPM SATA drive in my MBP with an Intel X25M-G2 80GB SSD. So far it’s been great and I have no doubt it’s extended the lifespan of my laptop (MacBook Pro 2,2). Being a digital pack-rat the hardest thing has been going from a 500GB drive to [...]
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