This post is a bit different from my others. I am excited to share a couple of posts I wrote in conjunction with Gestalt IT about Pure Storage. The first post is focused on a consumption based service model for Pure Storage, while the second highlights integrations with the AWS ecosystem. Links to both posts … Continue reading Pure Storage in the Era of Cloud
Recently, when creating the first VMFS datastore on an EMC storage array, I received and error stating that “the specified disk is not available in the VMware hypervisor”. Though the VMFS datastore was successfully created on the array, the error occurred when trying to assign permissions to the vSphere hosts themselves. In this particular circumstance, … Continue reading EMC Unity Datastore “not available in the VMware Hypervisor”
It's been a little while since I've written a new post. It is the result of a combination of forces outside my control, one of which seems to be the holiday season playing it's part in filling up lots of my free time with "stuff" all of a sudden. Then I got an email from … Continue reading SolidFire Node Replacement
Some time ago, I mentioned to Adam that I thought it would be fun to do a "5 Questions with....." interview with partners that we meet and/or customers we work with as we are constantly meeting and working with interesting people. The plan is to start the interview with a basic introductory question, then dig … Continue reading 5 Questions with…..Jonathan Adair – Sr. Systems Engineer – Nutanix
We recently installed a Solidfire cluster in one of our multi-tenant environments. I figured it would be a good idea to test the use of Virtual Volumes (VVols), since SolidFire touts easy integration for VVol use. SolidFire has a great VVols configuration guide, so I used that as a jumping off point. First of all, … Continue reading Virtual Volumes on SolidFire
