A quick friday post, I am upgrading the environment at my work place, and we are putting the fantastic Nimble Storage device as our SAN for the VMware environment. I’ve not personally installed one of these before until now, but have worked on them whilst in production and the performance from the device is unbelievable, … Continue reading Nimble Storage – How to create a Volume
Kubernetes is a platform which is starting to lose the need for introduction in most settings. However, it still can be a complex beast to get to grips with, and getting your infrastructure components configured correctly is key to providing a successful Kubernetes environment for your applications. One of these such areas is storage. Remember … Continue reading Kubestr – Open-Source Kubernetes Storage benchmarking tool
This blog posts spawns from an interesting discussion between the Veeam Vanguard members on what components are needed to build an effective lab for testing out most of the Veeam features, especially with v10 around the corner. So, I’ve put together something that should hopefully work for this; I’m not really going to focus on … Continue reading Building a Veeam Lab – a recommended architecture
Oops I forgot to post this last week as I was busy finishing off my Cisco UCS Blog posts, but still if you read this in time, maybe you’re in the area and can nip down, or pull a sickie and get in, the event will be worth it!! Personally I was all booked up … Continue reading Last Minute VeeamON:Forum London plug!!!
Part 1 – Setting up Fabric Interconnect, and UCS Manager settings Part 2 – Configuring Connectivity & Setting up the policies and Service Profiles Part 3 – Deploying ESXi via KVM onto FlashFlex (SDCard) Part 4 – Upgrading the Firmware In my first post, we got as far as setting up the management interface of … Continue reading Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 2 – from scratch for VMware ESXi