To follow up on my last blog regarding NFS Datastores, I will be addressing how to replicate VMware NFS Datastores with VNX replicator. Because NFS Datastores exist on VNX file systems, the NFS Datastores are able to replicate to an off-site VNX over a WAN. Leveraging VNX replicator allows you to use your existing WAN link to sync file …
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For those of you who are leveraging VNX Unified File systems, were you aware that you have the ability to checkpoint your file systems? If you don’t know what checkpoints are, checkpoints are a point-in-time copy of your file system. The VNX gives you the ability to automate the checkpoint process. Checkpoints can run every hour, or any designated …
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It wasn’t so long ago that a 1G disk drive made your computer the envy of every other nerd on the block. Now the tech enthusiast sees green when you have 4 to 10 TB. This is just at home! Currently in the enterprise space we are seeing regular caches of data well in excess of 100TB. …
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Lately, the question on everyone’s mind has been: is it possible to replace your aging backup strategy with array-based snapshot and replication technology? The inevitable follow-up to that question: why is this so hard to swallow by so many of us, and why do we have a hard time accepting it? It all boils down to …
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Considering how much I talk about backup, it’s remarkable how much I hate the topic. So here I go again. Along the lines of my traditional backup philosophy, if you hate something, do as little of it as possible… Let’s pretend that you don’t have the funds for Plan A: Namely, that being two arrays …
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