Posts tagged "storage"

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What's in PernixData FVP's secret sauce

Jul 31, 2014

Anyone who manages or architects a virtualisation environment battles against storage performance at some stage or another. If you run into compute resource constraints, it is very easy and fairly cheap to add more memory or perhaps another host to your cluster. Being able to add to compute incrementally makes it very simple and cost effective to scale. Networking is similar, it is very easy to...

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HP Smart Array Controller can cause an ESXi PSOD - patch now available

Jul 7, 2014

Time to check your HP Smart Array Controller driver versions. HP has issued an ( for ESXi 5.x with a number of Smart Array Controllers that can cause an out of memory condition which could lead to a PSOD if you are running the _hpsa_ driver version 5.x.0.58-1. VMware also has a ( You can now avoid this without having to downgrade the driver but upgrade to the 5.x.0.60-1 version so that's HP Sma...

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HP's new management appliance OneView updated to 1.1

Jul 4, 2014

HP has updated its new all singing all dancing management appliance, ( This is now available for download after being announced at ( last month. HP OneView will be the ultimate replacement for HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM), HP Insight Control and HP Intelligent Provisioning. It is delivered as a virtual appliance running on a hypervisor. HP is...

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HP Discover here I come!

Jun 2, 2014

I’m particularly looking forward to speaking to HP product managers and executives and chatting to other bloggers and attendees to get a sense of what’s new with the “new” HP. Product wise, I’m first of all keen to delve deeper into ( HP’s converged infrastructure manager which aims to finally bring together HP’s disparate management tools, ultimately replacing HP SIM which I really don’t like...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Introduction

Aug 26, 2013

I would say that this is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary update being the third major release in the vSphere 5 family (5.0,5.1,5.5). There are however some significant storage additions such as Virtual SAN (VSAN) and VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash) as well as a new vSphere App HA to provide application software high availability which is in addition to vSphere HA. VMware has also respon...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Virtual SAN (VSAN) is one of the highlights of the new vCloud Suite 5.5 and is a really strong push further into VMware’s vision of the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). VSAN was ( when it was then called VMware Distribu...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash)

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vFlash allows you to take multiple Flash devices in hosts in a cluster and virtualises them to be managed as a single pool. In the same way CPU and memory is seen as a single virtualised resource across a cluster, vFlash do...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vCenter Site Recovery Manager

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 3 released with new Performance Monitoring and full ONTAP 8.2 API Support

Aug 9, 2013

NetApp has updated its ( Two major features have been added: A new cmdlet Invoke-NcSysstat which is like Invoke-NaSysstat and allows you to monitor cluster system performance stats for: System, FCP, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, iSCSI, Volume, Ifnet, LUN, and Disk. Invoke-NcSysstat works in both the cluster and Vserver context for Data ONTAP 8.2 and up. For Data ONTAP versions previous to 8.2, Invoke-Nc...

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NetApp releases its Virtual Storage Console (VSC) PowerShell Toolkit 1.0

Dec 5, 2012

NetApp has extended its PowerShell management to its virtual center plug-in, the Virtual Storage Console. The toolkit can be downladed from ( NetApp currently has a PowerShell toolkit called ( for managing its controllers but this new toolkit has been developed to manage the VSC directly. As this is a 1.0 release not all VSC functionality is available. Currently it can do the Provisioning and Clo...

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