A Podcast for IT – Talking about storage

At the gates of summer, what better than to have a relaxed chat with my colleague Federico Cinalli, This time it's time to talk about storage in general, We will take a look at the solutions we have today from the retro era. We will talk of course about disks and software, of its evolution and the options that we can find; all aimed at any market, From small environments to critical environments, where in addition to good performance high availability is necessary.

Monitoring a Synology Array

If we have a Synology NAS array in our environment, we should take into account centralizing and monitoring its status, No? It will be very easy to integrate it into our Centreon and be able to know at all times its health and that of its components such as disks or volumes, as well as consumption or temperatures! These types of cabins must be under control, since they usually store either backup backups or directly all the company's data.

Monitoring a QNAP NAS

In this post, we'll look at how to monitor a QNAP NAS or SAN that we have in our organization, we will do it only through SNMP and we will see everything we can get! Thanks to Centreon it will be quick and easy to have everything under control, from hard drives to any chassis sensor or RAID status! Nothing, We get a couple of necessary scripts first and that's it! Then sew and sing!

Using Storage Policies in VMware vSphere

On VMware, One way to be able to catalog our storage is by using Storage policies. With them, among other things, We can initially create tags to tag our datastores, and then create storage policies based on certain conditions that the datastores meet. With this, we will be able to stop worrying about where we store the virtual machines individually and we will try to manage them based on their criticality, yield…

Connecting an iSCSI-enabled Openfiler NAS to VMware ESX

In this document, we'll look at how to connect an ESX server to a shared storage system, for this we will use an Openfiler NAS, using iSCSI. To configure this document, it is assumed that we already have an Openfiler server installed and with a volume created of the iSCSI type to be able to use HA or DRS with VMotion. And of course a virtual network connection that allows VMotion.