Just another day in the life of a System Engineer
Having upgraded to vSphere 4 (which seems to perform quite well, by the way) I discovered that VMware has added a new hard disk controller “LSI Logic SAS” – this controller is now the default controller for Windows 2008 systems. I’m not sure if there’s any performance boost in switching to this new virtual hardware? [...]
As commented earlier, I’ve had some problem running SnapManager on our Virtual Infrastructure and NetApp Filers. SnapMananager insists on snapshotting all VM on a datastore at the same time, which leads to timeout problems in the VSS system. As an alternative I’ve been exploring NetApp’s VIBE (Virtual Infrastructure Backup Engine) script, and it actually seems [...]
As you might know, we are using NetApp Filers for shared NFS-storage for our ESX servers. Today I’ve been trying to setup NetApp “SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure“. The idea is that SnapManager makes VMware snapshots of the running machines, then does a NetApp Snapshot of the storage volume and finally deletes the VMware snapshots – [...]
In my company we are using VMware ESX servers (version 3.5.0 update 2) for our virtual environment. We have a couple of elderly Netapp filers which we use for shared NFS storage to host the virtual machines. All in all we are quite happy with this solution, but as our storage capacity is running a [...]
