I’m located in a fairly rural area, far away from our friendly local NetApp service engineer. I recently had some hardware issues with a FAS 3140 storage system. After opening a ticket on NetApp’s support site, and trying various things… Continue Reading
VMware vSphere version 4.1 introduced various new features, including vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI). If you are using storage that supports VAAI (and most storage vendors are implementing it over time) then you can offload some storage intensive tasks… Continue Reading
I’ve been a VMware administrator for a while now, but a co-worked recently showed me this handy trick. This assumes that you can do a Storage vMotion, This requires you to have the right version of vSphere, like Enterprise or… Continue Reading
We have an older machine room that has been through many years of equipment changes. As a result, it doesn’t have *ahem* optimal cooling systems. Some of our more active systems have been having cooling issues recently, and here’s what… Continue Reading