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…

Aligning Our Partitions

In this document we will see something old but that we have never talked about and we still find it misconfigured in clients when it comes to auditing the systems; when you have a virtual server that requires high performance at the disk level, we must check that the partitions are correctly aligned!

I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

Using Datastore Cluster on VMware vSphere 5

It is one of the new features of vSphere 5, It is a pool of datastores that will help us to manage the datastores together, always obtaining the best result to locate a virtual machine and thus have a higher performance at the disk level since it will always offer us recommendations to choose the lightest datastore. It will also analyze and generate recommendations for moving virtual machines between the different datastores in the cluster.