IT From All Angles

I recently ran into a situation where I needed to create a large number of Logical Volumes for a server replacement situation.  I could have done some manual data input, but why not take the opportunity to quickly write a script to do the hard work for me? For my situation this was a server [...]

So recently I dealt with a rather aggravating problem.  Basically I had a couple of Poweredge R515′s to be built with NexentaStor Enterprise, which would not get a valid network configuration. The Problem During the initial setup via the console…  I selected bnx0 as the primary and set it to use DHCP, after a bit [...]

So if you purchased  a Equallogic and put it into production one of the first things that you notice is that your xTB didn’t go as far as you originally planned, this is because Equallogic by default comes with a 100% snapshot reserve on all volumes that you create.  This means that if you allocate [...]

Alot of my time is spent handling storage from the array side, however recently I had the need to test both sides of the process in order to perform some exclusionary tests against a fully adaptable environment, without impacting our production environments, so I ended up using OpenIndiana 151a on both the target and initator [...]

The most critical thing about any storage implementation is flexibility.  This means that you need to be able to adapt your solution to changing environmental considerations.  The nice thing about a ZFS-based solution is that all of the building blocks are available.  If you want to use it as a NAS device, you can use [...]