A few months after our first NetApp StorageGRID Webscale PoC we came back for another PoC. This time: Virtual Appliances on VMware vSphere. A perfect solution for small environments and if you already have a virtual environment. After modifying some scripts, the deployment was really easy and fast: a 5-Node cluster including Gateway- and Admin-Node inā¦ Read More »
Getting sick of Microsoft Windows and the ISE, I’ve installed VMware PowerCLI on my Debian Linux today. Everything could be done from your Shell, you do not need to download anything with your browser. Nice stuff – PowerCLI was installed in unter 2 minutes š First you need to add some apt sources and installā¦ Read More »
A newly (manual) added FC datastore has a default multipath policy of “Most Recently Used (MRU)” or “Fixed” – both means, that there will be only one path used at a time. We wanted all our datastores to use multiple paths, so we switched all our datastores to “Round Robin (RR)”. With about 10 storageā¦ Read More »
For later productive use, we needed about 2000 portgroups in our Distributed Virtual Switch for our customer VMs. We are pre-provisioning our DVS with these portgroups, so there is no need to create the PG, when it is needed. Our network department just needs to configure the VLAN an the hypervisors trunk ports and ourā¦ Read More »