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.

Consolidating snapshots on VMware

There are times when for one reason or another a VMware datastore fills up, it's usually because of 'fault’ from a snaphost that doesn't account for the maximum size of the disk definition. On certain occasions when the datastore is completely full, we will not even be able to delete the snapshot, Not even being able to start the machine; So we're lost. A 'solution'’ is to extend the LUN, then expand the datastore and that's it, We retried what we wanted. Sometimes this is not possible, or is it directly a ñapa; what we have to do is consolidate our disks with their snapshots on a temporary LUN and finally return everything to its original datastore without snapshots or so on, Here's the solution.

Setting up an HP Lefthand array

In this document you will see certain generic configurations that allow these HP SAN arrays called HP Lefthand, this case is carried out by means of virtual arrays under a VMware environment, as they allow you to work perfectly in a much more flexible laboratory environment. HP has several models of physical Lefthand arrays, all with the same system, but with different capacities, Disc Models, Ethernet Mouths… would be the HP LeftHand P4500 and HP LeftHand P4300 series. But also for production environments there is the HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance or VSA. In this document we will see the main characteristics of the cabins, such as storage clustering (gives greater performance and capacity), Network RAID (Increased data availability), Thin provisioning (Reduces costs and improves disk capacity utilization), iSCSI (Ethernet network technology) Snapshots and Replication using Remote Copy (for local replication […]