Leveraging EMC,VNX, & NFS To Work For Your VMware Environments...
Storage Benefits NFS (Network File System) is native to UNIX and Linux file systems. Because the NFS protocol is native to UNIX and Linux, it allows the file system to be provisioned thin instead of...
View ArticleHow to Create a LUN on an EMC VNX Array w/ Unisphere (for Ex-Navisphere Users)
As the VNX unified storage array continues to roll out, concerns increase for customers who have known Navisphere for years. For example: “Where is everything and how the hell do I create a LUN?” In...
View ArticleTo Snapshot Or Not To Snapshot? That Is The Question When Leveraging VNX...
For those of you who are leveraging VNX Unified File systems, were you aware that you have the ability to checkpoint your file systems? If you don’t know what checkpoints are, checkpoints are a...
View ArticleHow To: Replicating VMware NFS Datastores With VNX Replicator
To follow up on my last blog regarding NFS Datastores, I will be addressing how to replicate VMware NFS Datastores with VNX replicator. Because NFS Datastores exist on VNX file systems, the NFS...
View ArticleSave Time and Increase Accuracy by Using Microsoft Excel to Script Repetitive...
If you’re like me, when you have a lot to do and not a whole lot of time to do it, saving time on repetitive tasks certainly helps—creating scripts with Excel can do just that. Aside from writing some...
View ArticleEMC VNX2 Review: New Hardware and a Big Change to Software for Next...
This review will highlight some of the new changes and features of the next generation VNX. Overview The new VNX series—referred to as the VNX2, VNX MCx, and the next generation VNX—comes with a major...
View ArticleVNXe 3200: The Future of the VNX?
I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that the VNX will eventually be similar to the VNXe. I didn’t believe EMC would do that until they came out with the VNXe 3200, but now it is looking like it is a...
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