HP Storage TechDay
This week I’m off to Fort Collins Colorado to visit HP for their latest Tech Day on storage. This is my first invitation to the HP Tech Day events and I’m told they will be showing us all the latest…
Category: Storage
EMC VNX5300: My First Encounter
I have worked with several EMC SAN’s as well as a slew of SAN’s from other vendors, but I had not yet gotten the opportunity to mess around with a VNX5300 before last week. This SAN is for an upcoming…
SANiQ 9.0 Kernel Panic Issue
Last week I worked with HP on a customer SAN where two nodes had randomly rebooted all by themselves without any warning. Because they had another node and a failover manager all their volumes stayed online, but after the second…
HP P2000 G3 – Upgrading to get VAAI Support
I just wanted to give all of the Hp P2000 G3 owners a heads up that there is an updated firmware version available that adds VAAI support to your SAN. It was released August 31st, 2011 and looks like it…
Tintri Storage
Fellow vExpert Justin Laurer introduced me to Tintri’s storage solution today at VMworld. At a VERY high-level Tintri provides a datastore via NFS storage, but once you start listening to their presentation you quickly realize its much much more than…
HP DL380 G5 and SC08e SAS Card
I’ve been asked several times if this combination will work, I guess the HP site says they are not compatible… or at least doesn’t list them as being tested and working. We do have a customer that runs an SC08e…
Migrating External SAS storage to VMware
The Mission: Virtualize a very SMB customers file and document imaging server off of their aging hardware while leaving intact an MSA50 drive shelf. The idea is that because the MSA50 and its drives were added much later, the client…
Is vSphere 5 Storage Appliance a good buy?
VMware is targeting SMB’s and branch offices for its latest vSphere add-on. The vSphere 5 Storage Appliance offers customers the choice of putting internal storage in their ESXi servers and then create a shared storage repository out of it. This…
HP P2000 SAS Storage vMotion Performance
Today I moved a 350GB Virtual machine from one Datastore to another on a P2000 SAS SAN and was pretty impressed with the performance so I thought I would share. The setup has 24 – 300GB 10k SAS drives, and…
RAID10: Do you really need it?
This past week I installed an EMC VNXe 3100, the install went well and the new Unisphere Interface made it a snap to get the VMware ESXi boxes added. One of the requirements was to have some RAID10 space and…