A question we receive a lot is what kind of zoning should be implemented for our storage solution? The answer is usually really short and simple: at least single initiator zoning.
Single initiator zoning is something we have always recommend in the field (VMware PSO Consultants/Architects) and something that is clearly mentioned in our documentation… at [...]
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Single Initiator Zoning, recommended or not?
March 4th, 2010
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Definition of the advanced NFS options
February 13th, 2010
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An often asked question when implementing NFS based storage is what do these advanced settings represent you are recommending me to change?
VMware published a great KB article which describes these. For instance:
NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures
The number of consecutive heartbeat requests that must fail before the server is marked as unavailable.
The KB article does not only explain the separate NFS settings but [...]
Real life RAID penalty example added to the IOps article
January 11th, 2010
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I just added a real life RAID penalty example to the IOps article. I know Sys Admins are lazy, so here’s the info I just added:
I have two IX4-200Ds at home which are capable of doing RAID-0, RAID-10 and RAID-5. As I was rebuilding my homelab I thought I would try to see what changing [...]





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