VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 2
Part 2 will be about how to get the VM that we created in Part 1 online, for both outbound access to the internet as well as inbound access to…
Author: Justin Paul
VMware vCloud Air On Demand Part 1
Last week I was given access to the new vCloud Air OnDemand service and $1000 dollars in service credits to put it through its paces and then blog about it…
Direct Attach Fiber Channel with the EMC VNXe3200
The demo box that I have from EMC does not have the fiber channel mez card in it, but last week I did get a chance to configure a VNXe3200…
VMTurbo, Now Sponoring JPaul.me!
The folks over at VMTurbo have decided to help out and sponsor my blog. If you haven’t seen what they have been up to I would definitely encourage you to…
VMware Big Data Extensions and Hadoop for Infrastructure Benchmarking
One of the things I’ve always looked for was a way to load test and benchmark some of the things I build. In the past I have used tools that…
My roadmap for the VNXe series
Disclaimer: I don’t work for EMC and I don’t have any inside information that any other customer or partner wouldn’t have. I also have no more influence over the product…
VNXe3200 Managing Storage and Cache
The VNXe3200 is almost identical to both the previous VNXe’s as well as the VNX series of SAN’s in that it uses Unisphere for management. However, the version of Unisphere…
VNXe 3200 Controller Failover Behavior
Two years ago I posted an article describing how the VNXe3100 (and 3300 and 3150) had a major drawback in the way that it handled IO during a controller reboot…
Hello I’m Justin, and I was an iPhone user
Update: After Verizon finally started allowing 4G calling (Which allows the data to stay on too). I switched back to an iPhone. So after 2 years, I am officially back…
EMC VNXe 3200; new firmware enables up to 150 drives
On Thursday EMC quietly released a firmware update for the VNXe3200 which allows the system to recognize up to 150 drives. The version number is 3.0.1.3513260 and again it was released…