Archive for October, 2009

NetApp SnapManager VI 2.0 Released (2009-10-29)

Category: Backups, ESX, NetApp, Storage, VMware | No Comments

NetApp have finally released the latest and greatest version of their SnapManager for VI product.
An essential addition to any infrastructure running both VMware & NetApp it allows guaranteed crash consistent versions of Virtual Machines to be replicated to secondary sights.
New functionality and enhancements include:

Singe file restore (SFR)
A single wizard for creating manual and scheduled backup [...]

NetApp Release Virtual Storage Console (2009-10-27)

Category: NetApp, Storage, VMware, vSphere | No Comments

NetApp have released the eagerly anticipated Virtual Storage Console:

http://blogs.netapp.com/storage_nuts_n_bolts/2009/10/netapp-virtual-storage-console-vsc-for-esx-ready-for-download.html

It does a lot of useful things for a 1.0 release, but probably the most important are the remediation options for the following:

Storage adapter timeouts
Multipathing settings
NFS settings
Guest OS disk timeout values
Correct misaligned disk partitions

It is available for vSphere ESX & ESXi right now from the [...]

I’m Back! (2009-10-14)

Category: Personal, VMware | No Comments

Hello All
It has been a very long time since I have posted as I have started a new job that has completely consumed my life for the last 6 months.
I have been working on NetApp and VMware pretty much exclusively so expect to see lots of posts with NetApp focus as well as the traditional [...]