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Install Avamar Single Node without dpnnetutil

When installing an Avamar single node on RHEL, you can use the dpnnetutil for preparing all kinds of configuration of your Avamar node. The thing I miss with this, is the flexibility of the networking configuration for example. Inside this … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Installing Avamar Single Node Gen 4

The first Avamar grid I installed was an Avamar Gen 3 grid with different storage nodes connected to each other and an Avamar version 5 installation on top of it. When searching online for installation guides, there is not really … Continue reading

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