One of the common gothca’s I saw in the field in regards to VMware SRM is that sometime, the XMS replication peers aren’t configured with a full qualified domain names (FQDNs), and when you try to pair between the XMS’s in VMware SRM, you get the following error “Array manager does not have a per array manager on the remote site”
The solution is pretty easy, just configure them for FQDN as shown below
Readers of my blog knows that we typically reccemdend using Eager Zeroed thick VMDKs for performance, the performance aspect of it will manifest as a faster cloning time and a faster performance during the initial writing blocks inside the VM.. It’s a good thing that the times are changing, recommended practices are always being…
Building an All Flash Arrays (AFA) is different, the aspect of what it is trying to solve is also different, the big promise using flash array is the predictive performance nature of it, consistent performance and if you lucky with your array vendor, providing enterprise features such as a true scale-out, inline deduplication, unique RAID…
Hi, I created a demo that shows how do we integrate with VMware SIOC in order to QoS a specific “bad vm” . the demo is pretty much self explanatory but in case you want to understand the flow: 1. I run a storage intensive script of 4 linux servers 2. they are consuming a…
Innovation in Storage Provisioning with the new WebUI application The previous blog Innovation in Storage Troubleshooting with the new WebUI application we reviewed how the innovations of the XtremIO new WebUI adds simplicity and intelligent capabilities to the Storage Admin Troubleshooting processes. In this blog, we will focus on the simplicity and flexibility of the…
As part of XIOS 6.1 which contains the new and revolutionary native replication (I blogged about it here ..), we have also released the support for VMware site recovery manager (also known as SRM). You wouldn’t drive a racecar without a helmet… and you shouldn’t run your data un-protected.. Especially as you consolidate more and…
In the first post of the series, we covered Dell ObjectScale and how to install it, you can read about it, here Data volumes continue to explode across the enterprise, driven by the proliferation of mobile devices, applications, and the growth of the Internet of Things. As the amount of data businesses generate continues to…
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