Datacore announces SANsymphony-V
Posted on 03.Feb 2011 by Ray Heffer in Business & IT, SAN Storage, VirtualisationSANsymphony-V- http://bit.ly/gcaYVa
“DataCore Announces New Generation of Storage Virtualization Software that Solves the “Big Problem” Stalling Today’s Server and Desktop Virtualization Projects”.
Use Cases for VMware ESX 3.x DisallowSnapshotLUN and ESX 4.x Force-Mount
Posted on 21.Jan 2011 by Ray Heffer in ESXi, SAN Storage, Tech Tips, Virtualisation, VMware
If you are involved in DR for your organisations IT infrastructure and are replicating virtual machine VMFS datastores then you may be familiar with DisallowSnapshotLUN in ESX 3.x. Let’s start with a background on what these advanced settings are and why they are there.
Since virtualization changed the landscape for disaster recovery some time ago now, most businesses have embraced SAN storage replication for DR (see my other post). This is old news now, but unless your SAN vendor integrates with something like VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) then you will have a number of manual tasks involved in your DR recovery process.
SAN Storage For Disaster Recovery Solutions
Posted on 31.Jan 2010 by Ray Heffer in SAN Storage, Virtualisation, VMware
It’s Monday morning and you arrive late at the office thanks to the trains being delayed yet again. At that particular moment in time as you grab your morning coffee, several hundred users have already logged in and started launching their email client, web applications, and a myriad of documents and spreadsheets. So far this sounds like any other morning, but what I didn’t mention was the fact that just 30 minutes before you arrived at the office, a water from a pipe in the ceiling started to leak into the rack containing your SAN’s disk array.
