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EMCWorld 2013: Without skew, no flash
When you have a VNX in your environment, you want to use the most innovative features and disks that are available. People tend to say “I want flash”, but you can never put your entire environment on flash, meaning you … Continue reading
EMCWorld 2013: Avamar in 2013
EMC has got many ideas and stuff that is ready to use regarding Avamar in 2013. This year Avamar 7 will be released, but the official release date has been moved. This movement means that EMC is not giving all … Continue reading
Welcome @ EMC World 2013
Today I arrived at Las Vegas for attending the annual EMC World. Together with my collegues and EMC Elect co-members @50mu and @JonKlaus we’ll meet up with other EMC Elect members to socialize, share experience and share knowledge. Besides enjoying … Continue reading
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
Tagged 0, 1, 4, 4.1, 5, add, ALUA, auto, boot, Cisco, clariion, Computing, connectivity, Datastore, deploy, disk.enablenavireg, EMC, end, environment, ESX, esx5, ESXi, esxi5, Fabric, fabrics, from, front, HBA, host, initiator, navisphere, policy, Port, primary, Profile, profiles, pxe, SAN, secondary, Service, single, Stateless, status, Storage, target, UCS, Unified, unisphere, vcenter, vHBA, VMFS, vNIC, VNX, vnx5300, vSphere, WWN, wwpn, zone, zoning
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Avamar Global Source Based De-duplication: How it works
I have been working with Avamar for 2 years now at different customer sites and the effects on today’s challenges regarding Backup & Recovery are great, thanks to the Global Source Based Data De-duplication Avamar gives you. At the dutch EMCForum in … Continue reading
Posted in Avamar
Tagged 4, 5, 6, 6.0.1, 6.0.1-65, ADS, api, avamar, backup, based, block, Cache, CBT, changed, client, data, datadomain, de-duplication, dedup, deduplication, disaster, duplication, EMC, file, global, hash, installation, installing, integration, is, Machine, present, proxy, recovery, source, store, tracking, vadp, vcenter, Virtual, VMware, vSphere, vstorage
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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
Tagged Blade, Bladecenter, C7000, Cisco, Computing, CPU, Datacenter, Dimm, Distributed, EMC, enclosure, ESX, Extender, Fabric, FC, FCoE, FLOGI, Group, HBA, HP, Interconnect, IP, LAN, Link, MAC, Machine, Memory, Mezzanine, NIC, npiv, npv, Port, Profile, Rack, RAM, SAN, Series, Server, Service, Socket, Stateless, Switch, System, UCS, Unified, Unit, VCE, vHBA, VIC, Virtual, VM, vMotion, VMware, VN, VN-link, vNIC, VNX, vSphere, vSwitch, WWN
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