For vSphere 5.X   device we have to perform steps from CLI  to change the device type from HDD to SSD . From vSphere 6 onwards there is nice feature which allows you to tag (mark) a devise as Flash device from vSphere web client .In this post we are sharing how can we perform this  […]

• vSphere

SAN zoning is a method of creating  logical groups over the physical configuration of the fabric and  allowing communication / access  of Fibre Channel devices by grouping  them .  And zoning manages  communication of hosts and storage nodes ,  zone contains WWN name of these devices . A World Wide Name, or WWN, is a 64-bit […]

• Storage

This is a list of useful Brocade switch commands that will help you for administration or management operation. These commands are useful for for Zoning, Show, Port, Time/Date, License, Banner, Password, SNMP, User Config, Firmware, and Miscellaneous. Zoning Commands alicreate “Name”, “domain,port#” Used to create an alias alicreate “Name”,”portname1; portname2″ To create multiple ports under […]

• Storage

Why Multipathing ? To maintain a constant connection between a host and its storage, ESXi supports multipathing. Multipathing is a technique that lets you use more than one physical path that transfers data between the host and an external storage device. In case of a failure of any element in the SAN network, such as […]

• HPE

We discussed about RDM in detail post and here I am going discuss about configure  RDM as a Physical Compatibility disk to virtual machine. There are two types of RDM Disks Virtual Compatibility RDM Physical Compatibility RDM Virtual Compatibility RDM Disksact same as a virtual disk file, including the use of snapshots. There are 2 ways we an […]

• vSphere 6.5

We have discussed about RDM in detail post and here I am going discuss about configure  RDM as a Virtual Compatibility disk to virtual machine. There are two types of RDM Disks Virtual Compatibility RDM Physical Compatibility RDM Virtual Compatibility RDM Disksact same as a virtual disk file, including the use of snapshots. There are 2 ways we […]

• vSphere 6.5

Raw device mapping (RDM) is an option in the vSphere environment that enables a storage LUN to be directly presented to a virtual machine from the storage array . Mostly RDM will be used for confiuring clusters ( SQL , Oracle ) between virtual machines or between physical and virtual machines .Also or where SAN-aware […]

• VMware Virtualization