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Celerra & iSCSI Demonstration
Greetings from a Starbucks at the Charlotte airport. I’m here waiting to board my flight to Boston for a week at the EMC office. Last night I put together a quick video showing how to configure an...
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VMware: The debate over storage protocols
I’m all over the place this week. Tonight I’m at a cool little coffee shop in Providence, RI enjoying an excellent latte and some gingerbread while trying to ignore the woman on the other side of the...
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Read/Write iSCSI Snapshots on a Celerra
If you notice the dates on my posts you’ll see I haven’t been blogging lately but that doesn’t mean I’m not working on some interesting things. Lately I’ve been doing a lot with snapshots from iSCSI...
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PowerShell Scripts for Deploying VDI Replicas
Recently Chad Sakac wrote an article on using some PowerShell scripts to quickly deploy VDI replicas. As always, it’s a very good article but I wanted to expound a bit on what he has written and...
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Is It Still Too Early for FCoE?
There has been some good chatter going around concerning FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from both Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac. I had a chance to talk with Chad and Stuart Miniman today and I pretty...
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EMC VNXe Array Series: The Beginning…
Hey, what’s that in the box right there? Well, the big box on the bottom is an EMC VNXe 3300 array. The boxes on top, unfortunately, weren’t mine. They contained some solid state drives and another...
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Wow! Synology Released DSM 4.1 Beta w/ vSphere VAAI Support!
Yesterday Synology released the beta for DSM (DiskStation Manager) 4.1. You can see the announcement with a nice overview of features here. But, as usual, some of the best new stuff in a DSM beta...
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Synology DS3611xs/DS3612xs Review
It’s time to take it up a notch! Readers of my blog, and those that ask me for advice on home lab and small office environments, know that I’m a Synology fan. My lab has been running off of a...
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One thing I like about Synology is how they continue to push more enterprise type features in to their arrays. I’ve written before about their support for VAAI on vSphere and was happy to see them...
View ArticleBacking Up iSCSI LUNs on a Synology NAS
Last week I did a video showing the iSCSI snapshot feature in DSM 4.2 beta. I had a lot of people ask for more video demos so here we go. If there is anything you’d like to see or have ideas please...
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