Yesterday, Pure Storage support and I performed a non-disruptive upgrade of the operating system (called Purity) that runs the controllers for our solid state SAN (storage area network). Prior to the upgrade, Pure Storage support wanted to confirm that all of our LUNs were configured to use Round Robin. Specifically, their “VMware ESXi 5.1 Best …
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Wyse missed Day One support again for SUSE Linux C50LE
In the past two years, Dan O’Farrell from Dell Wyse has publicly promised that Wyse would offer Day One support for the latest VMware solutions as soon as they become available, saying “Wyse is continuing our tradition of Day One support for VMware View with View 5.1, meaning our industry-leading Windows Embedded, Linux, and Wyse …
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My comments on Pure Storage
My employer recently purchased a Pure Storage solid state SAN. I had a lot of influence on this project and lead the technical proof-of-concept testing. The Pure Storage team was great to work with. And while we did experience some problems during testing, their customer support responded quickly, took ownership, and resolved the issues — …
Shuttle Windows Media Center HTPC
I’m excited to have ordered parts to build a new home theater PC that will feature Windows 8 and Windows Media Center as my DVR/HTPC. More importantly, because Windows 8 now offers a type 1 hypervisor (Client Hyper-V), my always-on DVR/HTPC will also be my home lab and will run a few virtual desktops and …
Using PowerCLI to change all LUNs to Round Robin
Each week I learn a little more about PowerShell and PowerCLI. Today, I wanted to share how I used PowerCLI to change all of the LUNs connected to my ESXi hosts to the Round Robin multipathing policy. Note: Please make sure that your SAN/storage supports Round Robin before making these changes. First thing you need …
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