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Tintri VMstore Wish List
For the past two years, Tintri’s VMstore product has been my preferred VMware storage solution. The most complicated portion of the installation of the product is the rail kit. It took me just a couple of installations to add a hammer to my tool bag in order to bang the rails into place. The ability […]
Tags: deduplication, hammer, iops, microsoft, nfs solution, rail kit, roadmap, storage solution, tool bag, usability
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Using ZFS filesystem as an NFS datastore for ESXi
Using ZFS on Linux is an attractive solution for a high-performance NFS server due to several key factors: Cost, ability to use commodity hardware with free software Simplicity, quick install and easy to configure/manage Flexibility, ZFS offers a plethora of options for your filesystem needs In this case, I installed ZFS on CentOS 6.4 available […]
Tags: attractive solution, CentOS, commodity hardware, datastore, device id, filesystem, free software, linux, NFS Datastore, ZFS
Posted in Cloud, Coud Security, Linux, Storage, Virtualization, vmware | 4 Comments »
Using a Self-Signed SSL Certificate with IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter
The IBM Storage Management Console for Vmware vCenter adds a single-source of glass view into the IBM storage platform (in my case the StoreWize V7000) without leaving vCenter. However, the default installation ships with an unsigned SSL Certificate that does not function well with IE9/vCenter. So at a minimum, you must use a self-signed SSL certificate […]
Tags: ca certificate, IBM Storage Management Console, pem files, relative path, ssl certificate, storage management, storage platform, StoreWize, V7000, vmware
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vCenter Operations Manager shows unlicensed, yet not showing as an asset in vSphere licensing page
I went to check out my vCenter Operations Manager deployment today, and it showed as unlicensed: Yet on the licensing page, Operations Manager does not even show as an asset: A quick google search turns up the following Vmware KB Article And it turns out the resolution is quite simple: Resolution To generate an asset […]
Tags: admin ui, google, google search, operations manager, registration wizard, vCenter Operations, vcenter operations manager, vcOps, virtual machine
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