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Nimble Storage – How to create a Volume

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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, especially when comparing the price against other competitors!

It took me around 20 mins from power on to configure the device, just enter IP’s, plug device into network ports that are already on the correct VLANs for management and iSCSI and your away.

How to create a Volume

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VMware ESXi 5.5 u1 PSOD on HP ProLiant G7 PSOD

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For the past few weeks I’ve been working with a customer to resolve an issue with a re-purposed host where it PSOD every week.

Issue: We installed a new HP Gen8 server as a production host in their main site, installed with VMware ESX 5.5 u1, and then took the HP G7 ESXi 5 box to their second site and repurposed this as a DR host, with Veeam sending replica’s to this host, and it would also run a domain controller and one production VM related to the site it was located.

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