One of the things I have always found amazing with Veeam is the Backup from Storage Snapshots feature. The quick description of this amazing feature is that it performs your backup from your storage snapshot versus a vSphere snapshot. While it still takes a VMware snapshot of your virtual machine, the snapshot is open …
VMware vSAN is one of the the most rapidly evolving VMware technologies, but you you may not know much more about it beyond that, you may be asking yourself “What is vSAN anyway?”. If this is the case, don’t worry! Many times we do not learn about something until we have a reason to. The …
This year, I’ll be heading to #NetAppInsight Las Vegas for the first time as a presenter. NetApp Insight is where the original Vanna White FlexPod pose originated back in 2012, if you’ve been keeping track of those. Little did I know back then that I would be attending NetApp Insight as a presenter on the Converged …
I was strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of May. Well, not really, but there’s a Drobo 5D in my house that has years and years worth of pictures on it. Why did I get a Drobo 5D anyway? I was pleased with my Drobo 5S and we needed another …
This year, I became a #CiscoChampion for the first time. My first exposure to Cisco was of course, way before this. When I was in high school I took classes at night at a local community college. After my first Intro to Networking class, I went through the Cisco Networking Academy. This experience has served …
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 …