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IBM servers and vSphere
Today I was working at a customer site, who is really fond of IBM hardware. I am pretty sure it is great stable hardware, but when using non IBM software, I always need some “extra” stuff to do besides the … Continue reading
HA Admission Control: Base VM reservation on percentage
When configuring HA Admission Control based on a percentage, do you ever look at the current failover capacity from the vCenter inventory? When you do, it is possible you also noticed that the current failover capacity does not reflect the … Continue reading
Posted in Powershell, VMware
Tagged admission, capacity, connect-vi, control, CPU, current, ESX, ESXi, failover, ha, hypervisor, inventory, Memory, percentage, powercli, powergui, powershell, reservation, reservations, script, scripting, shares, vcenter, VMware, vSphere
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Bulk add zones on Cisco MDS SAN using Powershell
When adding many zones to an existing zoneset, it can be a large amount of work when using the “single initiator – single target” principle. About two years ago, my collegue Jon Klaus http://goo.gl/tliyn created a very cool VBS script … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco MDS, Powershell, Scripting
Tagged 9000, 9100, 9124, 9134, 9148, 9500, brocade, channel, Cisco, clariion, config, EMC, end, ESX, ESXi, Fabric, fcalias, fibre, front, initiator, inter, ivr, mds, member, microsoft, name, Port, powershell, ps, ps1, routing, SAN, single, sist, Switch, switching, target, terminal, vbs, VMware, VNX, vsan, vSphere, zone, zoning
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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
Posted in Cisco UCS, EMC VNX, SAN, Storage, vSphere 5
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Cisco UCS and the vSphere awareness
In my previous post I outlined the ideal combination between EMC’s VNX storage platform and vSphere 5, without even address the real vSphere VNX awareness using the Virtual Storage Integrator. To complete the VCE circle, I want to focus this … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco UCS
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