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First Look – Leveraging the Nimble Secondary Flash Array with Veeam – Setup guide

Following on with the setup guide of the Nimble Secondary Flash Array, I am going to go through the deployment options, and the settings needed for implementation with Veeam Backup and Replication. What will be covered in this blog post? Quick overview of the SFA Deployment Options Utilizing features of Veeam with the SFA Using … Continue reading First Look – Leveraging the Nimble Secondary Flash Array with Veeam – Setup guide

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Setting up a Nimble Secondary Flash Array from scratch

Nimble Storage have released their newest addition in the line up, the SFA, or to give its full name, the Secondary Flash Array. And in this post, we are going to look at how to set one up from scratch. Taken from the following datasheet; The Nimble Secondary Flash Array represents a new type of … Continue reading Setting up a Nimble Secondary Flash Array from scratch

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Building a Veeam Lab – a recommended architecture

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

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Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 1 – from scratch for VMware ESXi

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 First off, huge thanks to the following posts by Rene Van Den Bedem and his Cisco UCS … Continue reading Deploy a Cisco UCS system – Part 1 – from scratch for VMware ESXi