1. VMworld 2010 Round-Up
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... and I made the rounds. We went to the vCasino Royale to start the night, then headed to the Netapp party at Tilt Arcade, then went to the CA party (which was awesome by the way), then finished up the night ...

2. VMworld Schedule and Announcement
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... PM Lab: ESXi Remote Management Lab: ESXi Remote Management 5:30 PM-6:30 PM In-n-out Burger In-n-out Burger 6:00 PM-8:00 PM NetApp Party Tilt Arcade @ The Metreon. ...

3. ESXi 4.1 Kickstart Install - WIP
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...    #Set MTU to 9000 for jumbo frames on vSwitch esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitch_IP-SAN   #Add Portgroup to vSwitch_IP-SAN esxcfg-vswitch -A NetApp_FAS2020a vSwitch_IP-SAN   #Assign IP address ...

4. Provisioning Storage with NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 2.0
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Last week NetApp released version 2.0 of it's Virtual Storage Console plug-in for vCenter. You can download VSC 2.0 from now.netapp.com. To install VSC 2.0, you have to uninstall version 1.0. What I don't ...

5. Why vSphere Needs NFSv4
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... out of the box. Scalable: Grow and shrink datastores on the fly     NFS over iSCSI Related to Vendors: NetApp: It's a well-known fact NetApp touts the NFS protocol as it's cream of the crop. ...

6. Running Free ESXi License on ESX
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...  You can install the NetApp ESX Host Utility (or perhaps any other Storage or Server based ESX Utility) You can use Veeam FastSCP to transfer files.(which if you do enough scheduled copies ...

7. Virtualization Products You Might Not Know About - Xsigo & Reflex Systems vTrust
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... an EMC CLARiiON, a NetApp array and a Xsigo box. Talk about hardware overkill for about 10 desktops. One product I was unfamiliar with was the Xsigo box. A person on the bus mentioned that it "virtualizes ...

8. *Simple* NetApp ONTAP Upgrade
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This past week I noticed an update to NetApp ONTAP. We were running version 7.3.1.1 and I wanted to upgrade to 7.3.2. I heard from so many people, "Don't worry Kenny, it's so easy to do an upgrade." Come ...

9. Veeam told us to, so I put it in the lab
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... PDFs. A little background on the virtual setup for this demo. 2 IBM x3650 M2 servers and a NetApp FAS2020a SAN running all VMs on NFS datastores. I haven't had a chance to mess around with the vStorage ...

10. Creating a vSphere Host w/ Full Capabilities and only 2 NICS
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My current situation sits as follows. We have zero rack space. Literally none. I can't even rack up our new IBM x3650 M2 servers or the NetApp FAS2020a SAN for the vSphere migration. Thus, I have to make ...