For those that don’t know, there is a vSphere 5 Best Practise Guide for HA available from VMware: http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vsphere-ha-5-best-practices-guide.pdf
Monthly Archive: January 2012
Jan 23
HP StoreOnce Deduplication
I’ve mentioned HP’s StoreOnce Deduplication a couple of times in my blog and I’ve found a nice video that explains it in laymans terms:
Jan 22
HP Data Protector 6.21 Multipath Issue
As I said in my post ‘HP Data Protector 6.21 available’ I mentioned there were issues with the multipath setup and there are a few workarounds for it: Uninstall the 6.21 patches Use the GUI from 6.2 Request hotfix QCCR2A35525 through a HP Support Call Configure your multipath devices through omnidownload & omniupload I hope …
Jan 20
Direct Backup from SAN – Veeam FAIL
Veeam have released a patch to address the issues that users have been experiencing with Veeam v6 direct from SAN backups. The issues being seen include switching over to NBD mode, general long backups times and basic failures from the direct backup from san mode. The following KB lists the patch required: http://www.veeam.com/kb_articles.html/KB1442
Jan 19
VAAI comes to the P2000
VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a later post). Let’s just say at this point, if your storage device supports it, implement the required …
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