The Very Basics of How a Filer Works
Our storage devices, largely NetApp filers, are the least understood piece of gear in our inventory. Not because they are infinitely more …
What Right Looks Like: Part 2
Sometimes the gear we have is just a bit intimidating. Every Marine with an 065X MOS was taught at some point one …
What Right Looks Like: Part 1
I was stationed in Europe for a short time and was bombarded by cheesy Army commercials pointing out: “That’s not what right …
NFS and iSCSI Packet Captures
I got really excited when I learned about the native packet capture abilities our NetApp filers. I remember when I first started …
Storage for VMware – Setting up iSCSI vs NFS (Part 2)
During part 1 of this post we covered the basics of shared storage and the configuration steps for NFS. Now we are …
Storage for VMware – Setting up iSCSI vs NFS (Part 1)
Nearly any conversation about VMware configuration will include a debate about whether you should use iSCSI or NFS for your storage protocol …
DRS configuration on TCWS
Many Marines have experience with VMware, but many times they have experience USING VMware, not installing it on bare metal. Having been …
vCenter Local Permissions
Yesterday I wrote a post about 10 commandments for networking and one of those commandments was to use your individual account and …
vSphere on Linux FTW
I started reading my copy of “VCP 5 Official Cert Guide” from VMware Press and I read something that stopped me right …
Using SFTP on NetApp to backup CUCM
When Cisco moved their CUCM platform to a linux appliance, they limited network backups to SFTP only. There certainly are merits to …