Random posts about networking, storage, guns, reggae, probably booze and whatever else I feel like posting about.
I’m having difficulty getting a Veeam Backup & Replication v11 instance working with an HPE Nimble storage array to do storage-based backups. I’ve deployed some linux-based proxies, they aren’t working Continue Reading…
Yes this is great fun; go buy yourself a multi-hundred-thousand dollar storage array and then try to figure out how to add a real SSL cert to it so your Continue Reading…
Oh yes, you know the drill, EMC (now Dell/EMC) never overlooks a chance to create a dependency from a multi-hundred-thousand dollar disk array on a $1000 battery backup, or a Continue Reading…
Wow, four years have gone by since my article about upgrading PowerPath to 5.9 for vSphere 5.5 support. VMware is up to 6.5 on vSphere/vCenter, the web-based interface continues to Continue Reading…
Ever run into this error trying to add storage to an ESXi host? “Cannot change the host configuration”. In my case it was occurring when trying to add a LUN Continue Reading…
Yes, the same company that charges $300k+ for an XtremIO brick, apparently runs their customer support and software download network on a T1 from 1994. Okay, it’s not quite that Continue Reading…
Good times… I’ve got an XFS file system that I need more space on, and fortunately the partition in question is the last on the disk, and the partition in Continue Reading…
Got the chance to deploy an XtremIO v3 (v3.0.1 OS) recently, to replace a VNX5500. Both running iSCSI, both handling VMware load exclusively, PowerPath/VE in use on the VMware side Continue Reading…
EMC must be taking a page from VMware’s play book of giving customers exactly what they don’t want. vSphere/vCenter 5.1, things are stable, managed by the Windows fat client (aka Continue Reading…
Just installed an EMC XtremIO v3 box, and yes, between it and the EMC VSI for VMware web client plugin, since they’ve screwed people who use the thick client, we Continue Reading…