My previous post showing the VPLEX Geo / GoogleMaps mashup was an early version and low quality. I created this one to better show the UI and recorded it at 60FPS using my HD camera.
thanks,
.nick
New UBER Model : UBER VNX (NFS) v1
April 8, 2011 By 68 Comments
I am crazy heads down on a massive EMC World 2011 project right now. One bad side effect is I have not had time to keep up with the stuff I normally do on the side for EMC. This includes updates to the UBER VSAs (virtual storage appliances). I did get one *internal* one done recently but nothing for my community.
Yet, almost a month ago, one of the teams behind the EMC VNX released a VSA for it. I helped do some testing and built an UBER version but did not have time to finish testing and bug fixing. The good news is I got my head enough above water on my main projects to dedicate some time today to squash the last big bug and finish this VSA.
So I present for your free (unsupported) use: the EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1.
Details:
- First off, NFS/CIFS only. Long story on this but this VSA only has this enabled. The engineering teams have a multiprotocol(and much more) version but it is not quite ready for public yet (though it is coming).
- New VNX Unisphere. Looks even better. Cool new stuff and even slicker arrangement.
- One datamover only. Think of this version 1 as the beginning of a new series. I have not had the time to make the multi-DM version yet.
- Same greatness as before (Network auto add, storage auto add, quick wizard setup).
And some caveats:
I tested everything I could but this is going to be much more like the original Celerra UBER VSA I released. As I get more time with it and get feedback I will improve stuff.
Here are the download links for the OVA, ZIP and MD5 hashes. Also there are torrent links for those that prefer that method.
EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – OVA (HTTP)
EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – OVA MD5 (FTP)
EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – ZIP (HTTP)
EMC UBER VNX (CIFS/NFS) VSA v1 – ZIP MD5 (FTP)
As always please comment if you have questions or hit the Everything VMware at EMC community page to drop questions for me or my EMC brothers and sisters.
And I will see all of you at the EMC World labs 
.nick
More PS Fun : Fix vCenter Startup w/ PowerShell
March 2, 2011 By 3 Comments
More to come on this, but I am working more hands-on lately in my role as a vSpecialist. As part of this I am going to make an effort to post every *shortcut* I come up with along the way. And I love shortcuts…
So here is another PowerShell trick. As many of you have experienced. If you have a local SQL server installation (express or not) of vCenter you will sometimes have vCenter not start correctly on boot. This is do to a race condition between the SQL Server services and vCenter. If SQL doesn’t beat vCenter then vCenter will not start. The correct way to fix this is to setup the Dependencies with the vCenter VPXD service to wait till SQL has done its business first. There are actually several good articles out there on how to do this manually.
I don’t like to anything manually, so here is a PowerShell script to auto-detect and configure vCenter startup for local SQL installs. It is setup to work with SQL server or SQL server express. I think I got all bases covered but you can easily customize as you like (or use on other services). [Read more...]
PowerCLI and VAAI : Quick and dirty script
March 1, 2011 By 3 Comments
How can you enable or disable VAAI across all the ESX hosts in a cluster through a script? This question was tossed up on the vSpecialist email list this afternoon by our fearless leader.
Having just played with this I thought I would share my quick and dirty PowerCLI code. This basically asks for your vCenter URL and then asks whether you want to disable or enable across all ESX hosts within that vCenter. [Read more...]
