NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices Book Update
At VMworld 2009 attendees were able to purchase the first book ever published by NetApp in the VMworld bookstore. This book was NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices. Since then the book has been a huge success. I was very surprised today to learn that since the book’s release on August 31st, it has […]
Creating a Restricted vCenter Role for SnapDrive
Historically NetApp has had a very different vision regarding the value storage array. One of the core values follows along the lines of: In order to be truly valuable, advanced storage features must be made available to the system and in many occasions the application administrative teams. In the absence of this goal, we believe […]
Configuring Role Based Access with the Virtual Storage Console vCenter Plug-in
We have recently published how to enable role based access (RBAC) with the VSC for customers who want to use accounts other than root as the VSC’s ‘service account’. This is the account used to communicate with the Data ONTAP APIs. I would suggest that RBAC be implemented in environments that have separate administration teams […]
VCE-101 Thin Provisioning Part 2 – Going Beyond
This is the second installment of a two-part post focusing on the thin provisioning capabilities native to vSphere. If you haven’t read Part I – The Basics, I’d suggest you do so before proceeding. We’ve covered a lot of content which you really should have a solid grasp of before proceeding. In part I, I […]
VCE-101 Thin Provisioning Part 1 – The Basics
This week’s VMware Communities Roundtable featured one of my favorite people at VMware, Paul Manning who spoke on thin provisioning. This topic is the inspiration for today’s VCE post. Reducing storage costs is top of mind and it’s gonna take some time covering thin provisioning so let’s begin! Virtualizing a Datacenter I am not exaggerating […]