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Software Defined Storage Virtualisation – How useful is that then?
Ignoring the buzzword bingo post title, storage virtualisation is not a new thing (and for my American cousins, yes, it should be spelt with an s! 🙂 ). NetApp [..]
Storage, Tech Field Day
data gravity, Data Inertia, IOPS, IT Strategy, Latency, NetApp, NFS, ONTAP, Oracle, Primary Data, QoS, RMAN, SDS, Single Pane of Glass, SLO, SMB, SPoG, Steve Wozniak, V-Series, VMware, vSphere, VVOL, VVOLs
NanoLab – Part 9 – Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 on Intel NUC
I successfully ran my VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Nanolab for 18 months on my pair of Intel NUC DC3217IYE hosts. Early this year I got around to upgrading to 5.5. I [..]
Fix for VMware Remote Console unrecoverable error: (vmrc)
Uber quick post here with a very simple fix. I got the following error when upgrading my C# viclient from 5.5 to 6.0 and connecting to my new [..]
How often do you upgrade your storage array software?
Upgrades are scary! Having managed and implemented upgrades on highly available systems such as the old Sun StorageTech line of rebranded HDS USP/VSP arrays back in the day, [..]
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