5 January, 2012
When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the datastores, [...]
Filed under: storage - Virtual Center - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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27 September, 2011
End of 2009, beginning of 2010 I put an Iomega StorCenter IX4 to the test and published the results in these two blogposts: Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega StorCenter IX4-200D and part 2. Recently Iomega sent me their new StorCenter PX4-300R for testing purpose and I was happy [...]
Filed under: performance - storage - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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19 August, 2011
Last evening I had a WebEx session with Tintri in which they told me about their “VM only” storage appliance VMstore and I must admit that I’m impressed with what they have to offer. I have not yet had the opportunity to test this appliance, all info in this blog post is from the WebEx [...]
Filed under: storage - VMsafe
by Gabrie van Zanten
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27 June, 2011
When trying to update a number of hosts in the ESXi cluster of a customer I first ran into the issue that scanning the host for updates would result in the following error: “Could not scan esx12 for patches”. Searching through the VMware KB I learned that this is probably due to a corrupted scratch partition [...]
Filed under: esxi - PowerShell - storage - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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23 June, 2011
Zerto http://www.Zerto.com/ (Zero RTO) is a startup company that I first heard about when they were presenting at the Techfield Day in Boston. All information was under embargo, which didn’t allow us delegates to publish about Zerto until June 22nd and so I had to wait with this post until now. The presentation done by [...]
Filed under: Disaster Recovery - Gestalt - storage - Virtual Center - VMware
by Gabrie van Zanten
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