I’m an outspoken person as most of you noticed by now, but I’m also open for discussion and that’s why I particularly like blogging. Every now and then a good discussion starts based on one of my blog articles. (Or a blog article of any of the bloggers for that matter.) These usually start in [...]
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Block sizes and growing your VMFS
May 14th, 2009
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I had a discussion on block sizes after the post on thin-provisioned disks with some of my colleagues. For those that did not read this post here’s a short recap:
If you create a thin provisioned disk on a datastore with a 1MB blocksize the thin provisioned disk will grow with increments of 1MB. Hopefully you [...]
Update: VMFS metadata backup
April 5th, 2009
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Mike Laspina just released a new version of his VMFS metadata backup script. William Lam, the creator of the health check report script I wrote about, helped Mike out to add a new feature “rolling backup” with folder augmented organization based on the host name, store alias, date label and the rolling instance number. This new version saves [...]
Protecting VMFS Datastores
March 29th, 2009
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A couple of months ago Mike La Spina wrote a cool article titled “Understanding VMFS volumes“. This articles explained the concept of UUID’s and even explained how you could create a backup of your VMFS metadata. I haven’t personally ever encountered VMFS metadata corruption but it’s better to be safe than sorry.
Today Mike wrote a [...]
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