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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, really because I haven’t had much to say and the rest of the blogsphere has already said it.  However recently, I’ve had some interesting discussions which prompted me to write something.

Some background – For the last 5 weeks I’ve been in meetings and discussions with many vendors around data retention and eDiscovery based on a project our legal department is sponsoring.  I’ve met with at least half a dozen eDiscovery vendors from StorIQ, Digital Reef, Commvault, Symantec, etc. but the last couple days we’ve been talking with other IT people in my industry (chemical manufacturing) around their processes and procedures on the topic.  Some of the companies we spoke to said something that really struck a chord with me regarding home directories.

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Gotta love Twitter!  I received a note for Vaughn Stewart from NetApp about this post and that there is a hotfix for this exact issue.  Looking at the release notes for ESX 3.5U4 the hotfix was rolled into this.  So if you’ve upgraded to U4, the hotfix is there but you do need to confirm that the setting for NFS.LocksDisable is set back to a value of 0.

I found this article that was linked from Scott Lowe.  It’s about enabling NFS.disableLock settings in ESX when using NFS – particularly when following NetApp’s Best Practice Guide TR3428.

www.vmwaretips.com - I really like this site!

In my neverending quest to run a decent ESX lab at home I’ve been messing around with some storage options on the cheap.  Currently I use my iMac to serve up NFS storage to my ESX and ESXi hosts at home.  This works fine but I wanted something a little, well…better!

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I’ve been meaning to get around to testing out NetApp’s SnapManager for Virtual Infrasturcture (SMVI) and Virtual Infrastructure Backup Engine (VIBE) for a while now.  I had a chance to play around with both of them and I really like these solution as an alternative to VMWare’s Consolidate Backup.

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Network Appliance officially changed it’s name to “NetApp” on Monday. Good for them, I don’t know anyone who actually uses the full phrase “Network Appliance” anyway…I’d rather call it a NetApp then a “Filer”!!! They also changed their website and logo. I have to admit, I did like the old logo better.
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Every storage vendor offers some sort of disk snapshot technology. Some better then others, but one of the best ways to use snapshots is to increase backup and recovery speed, while decreasing the backup window. Leveraging your storage system snapshots is a great way to accomplish this.

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