NFS – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

April 19, 2016 Hersey

Preparing Compute Nodes to Use SimpliVity DVP

With the efficiency SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) brings to data with deduplication, compression, and optimization SimpliVity customers often need to scale compute before they need to scale storage. As long as the SimpliVity environment is capable of providing the storage capacity and performance required the compute resources can be scaled using what we call compute nodes.

vHersey

March 14, 2016 Hersey

My Raspberry Pi Setup

Since today is Pi day (3/14) here is a quick write up of how I set up my small, self contained, Raspberry Pi cluster.

Storage

May 13, 2015 Hersey

Deploying the EMC vVNX in the Home Lab

Last week @sakacc posted an EMC World Update about Project Liberty. This project is a software only virtual VNX appliance or vVNX. The appliance can be downloaded from the vVNX Download page.

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

April 20, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 3 – Objective 3.4

This post covers Section 3, Configure and Administer Advanced vSphere Storage, Objective 3.4, Perform Advanced VMFS and NFS Configurations and Upgrades of the VCP6 Delta Beta Exam.

VCP6 vHersey VITA VMware

April 7, 2015 Hersey

VCP6-DCV Delta Study – Section 3 – Objective 3.1

This post covers Section 3, Configure and Administer Advanced vSphere Storage, Objective 3.1, Manage vSphere Storage Virtualization, of the VCP6-DCV Delta Beta Exam.

Storage vHersey VMware

March 23, 2015 Hersey

Home Lab Rebuild – Synology and vSphere 6

Last week I ordered a Synology DS1815+ for the home lab. All the pieces arrived this past Friday. A good bit of my weekend was spent rebuilding the home lab to include the new Synology and vSphere 6.