Category Archives: SAN

Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN

Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading

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Recoverpoint: SANTap splitting can give you a headache

When deciding to implement a Recoverpoint environment, you have to decide which splitter(s) you will use to duplicate and redirect the I/O’s to your replication target, whether this is a local copy or a remote copy. You can use a … Continue reading

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Cisco MDS with Inter-VSAN routing: Keep it simple!

When working at the SAN level, or the storage networking level, you always have to watch the Domain ID, which represents the unique ID of the SAN switch that is a member of the Fabric. Anyone who works at the … Continue reading

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