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Tintri VMstore Wish List
For the past two years, Tintri’s VMstore product has been my preferred VMware storage solution.
The most complicated portion of the installation of the product is the rail kit. It took me just a couple of installations to add a hammer to my tool bag in order to bang the rails into place.… Read the rest
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Columbus vBeers on May 20th @ 7pm
Start off the Central Ohio VMUG Users Conference a little early.
Join the VMwareAdmins.com team at another edition of Columbus vBeers.
This event is being held at the Gordon Biersch located in the Arena District. We will be located in the pool room located off the bar.… Read the rest
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Using ZFS filesystem as an NFS datastore for ESXi
Using ZFS on Linux is an attractive solution for a high-performance NFS server due to several key factors:
- Cost, ability to use commodity hardware with free software
- Simplicity, quick install and easy to configure/manage
- Flexibility, ZFS offers a plethora of options for your filesystem needs
In this case, I installed ZFS on CentOS 6.4 available here: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/x86_64/
The hardware I used was a HP DL370 G6 with 11 3TB disks to be used for ZFS.… Read the rest
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Using a Self-Signed SSL Certificate with IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter
The IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter adds a single-source of glass view into the IBM storage platform (in my case the StoreWize V7000) without leaving vCenter.
However, the default installation ships with an unsigned SSL Certificate that does not function well with IE9/vCenter.… Read the rest
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