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HP P4000 Storage issue for Monday

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Here is what I have woken up to for today. This is the first time I have seen this. I rebooted the node to see if it would revive the missing disks, but no g...

Nexenta Performance Testing No-SSD/SSD

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In this post I will be testing Disk IO without SSD for L2ARC and ZIL/SLOG and then again with SSD for L2ARC and ZIL/SLOG. I will be using the VMware I/O anal...

vSphere 5.1 hot cloning failure

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We have run into this issue a few times after migrating servers from vSphere 4.x to vSphere 5.x. When trying to hot clone a vm the process fails and generate...

Installing PHD Virtual Backup and Replication

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In this post we will be installing PHD Virtual Backup and Replication. This solution is deployed as a virtual appliance. This means it is a very quick and ea...