Tag: storage

The future of storage is Scale Out

Luca Dell'Oca, October 28, 2013November 20, 2013

The IT industry has always been dominated by trends. Each hystoric period has seen the raise and success of groundbraking technologies, born with the goal to solve the limits of their ancestors, by introducing new ideas, better designed for the always evolving environments.
Storage is no different. If since the ’80s the rulers have been the RAID-based monolithic arrays connected to servers via a SAN, lately new solutions are raising, with different ideas but also some common features.

VMware admin / Splunk noob: #2 send ESXi logs to Splunk

Luca Dell'Oca, May 28, 2013December 4, 2016

In the first post of this series, I explained how to install and configure Splunk. In this second post, I will show you how to ship ESXi logs to a Splunk server. If a ESXi server has a local storage, logs are automatically saved in /var/log. If however a ESXi…

#SFD3: An analysis of NexGen Storage

Luca Dell'Oca, May 13, 2013November 29, 2013

In a previous article, I wrote about the acquisition of NexGen made by Fusion-IO, what were the technological and business reasons behind this acquisition, and how Fusion-IO wants to change and increase the NexGen business. In this article instead I’m going to describe you in more details how a NexGen…

Three ways to manage you ESXi servers logs

Luca Dell'Oca, April 22, 2013April 17, 2013

ESXi server log management is one of those activites often ignored or poorly managed by many administrators. Usually people are more concerned about hosted virtual machines, and since lately phyisical servers are usually really reliable, as it is ESXi, they end up thinking they will never have to access their…

Storage vMotion error: the method is disabled

Luca Dell'Oca, April 12, 2013December 4, 2016

I recently upgraded the storage section in a customer’s vSphere environment, by adding a new and more powerful SAN. Since customer had VMware licenses with Storage vMotion, we started moving the several virtual machines he had towards the new storage, without obviously shutting them down. In a couple of virtual…

Enable VASA Provider for HP Storage

Luca Dell'Oca, January 10, 2013February 13, 2013

In a previous post, I explained how to install and configure HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter 7.1.1 to monitor and manage an HP LeftHand storage directly inside vCenter Web Client. The HP software also adds VASA capabilities to vCenter, useful to create Storage Profiles based on effective storage capabilities directly…