If you’re a NetApp customer, and you’re running a VMware environment, you must be using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere. Right? I sure hope so. If you aren’t you should be, and you should be installing it after you finish reading this post. It is free after all. In addition to VSC …
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Whether we embrace it or not, IT Security organizations have become key players in our organizations over the years. Sometimes they get a bad rap, they have to be come the enforces for various policies and compliance requirements our businesses must adhere to. Audits can be met with enthusiasm or dread, but they aren’t going any place soon. I think much …
When I was a VMware administrator, one of the most crucial decisions we made when we deployed a new virtual machine was which datastore it resided on. We tried to stick to a naming convention that told us if we were using FC disks or SATA disks (we had some not so nice names for …
We keep hearing about OpenStack, but what exactly are we talking about? It’s not an apples to apples comparison to anything else in technology which can make it difficult to understand for some. OpenStack is one of those sort of nebulous (see what I did there?) things many people know about, but not everyone may understand. Or people …
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …
When I was still on the customer side, in 2011, I had the pleasure of working with FlexPod for the first time. It wasn’t in a cool rack that I could pose in front of, it was a NetApp FAS2040, Nexus 5ks, and Cisco UCS Servers and their Fabric Interconnects (which were named Batman and …