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Back to Basics
Simplicity and minimalism are in vogue these days. Gone are the days of complicated and convoluted products. As an example, look at Apple Inc, which has a set a trend in this day and age by taking...
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Got NFS ??
Some of you might agree with me when I say NFS is a more than reasonable and acceptable solution for sharing files over the network.Traditionally NFS is considered to be slower than block based SAN...
View ArticleJourney to the Clouds..
I have been lucky to have worked on some of the coolest bleeding edge products in compute and storage technology today.In 2001, when I joined Cisco Systems, my first project was to be one of the lead...
View ArticleA day in a life of a Nutanix storage IO
With HA - i.e Oplog set to RF=2 1. A guest vm writes data on a Nutanix datastore 2. The data is transferred to a CVM on the same node. 3. The CVM/stargate process writes data to its oplog and ensures...
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Focus people....SDN & SDS !!
It seems just like yesterday when we got true freedom from the tyranny of a 100mbps cable connected to our laptop and went wireless. Today we have wireless speeds better than what our data center and...
View ArticleWhat is the problem...
What is the problem...and what is the solution for the given problem ? Very rarely is a solution to a problem thought out so in-depth and in detail that it fixes the problem forever, the very first...
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Using CLI to remove a Hyper-V host from an AD-Domain
The following 3 commands would provide you the required information about a computer which belongs to an AD-Domain.The following command can be used to remove the computer from the AD-Domain.
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Nirvana
The goal of this and my last blog (What is the problem...) is to understand the challenges modern datacenters are facing today and what is holding datacenters back from achieving the final goal of...
View ArticleResilience - Part 1
re·sil·ience noun \ri-ˈzil-yən(t)s\: the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens: the ability of something to return to its original shape after it has been...
View ArticleResilience - Part 2
In my blog Resilience - Part 1, I wrote about what resilience means to me holistically, and what in my mind are ingredients that make up resilience.In this blog we will consider one way out of many in...
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One click non-disruptive upgrade in a pre-GA product !!
In my 16 years of being an sysadmin /storage engineer, I have been lucky to always have worked on the bleeding edge technologies way before they became GA products. Each of these products were MVPs...
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Do more with less...
Whenever I hear someone say "Do more with less", to me it just means CONVERGENCE.Almost everyone who uses a smartphone is the ‘beneficiary’ of convergence and the following picture should make it clear...
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Protect your VMs - The Cohesity Way
Cohesity provides a simple way to protect your VMs using the Vsphere VADP protocol and provides constructs like the Policy Manager which ensure the VMs protected by that policy are all consistently...
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Cohesity - Fully distributed Integrated Backup Software
In my last blog post, Protect your VMs - The Cohesity way I showcased how easy its to use the Integrated Backup software or Cohesity UI to protect 40 VMs running in a VMware Vcenter. The VMs were...
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Cohesity - Initial Cluster Setup
Setting up a Cohesity cluster involves 3 main steps. In the example below I am setting up a 3 node cluster from scratch. The following physical ground work has already been done.The block has been...
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Copy Data Management - The Cohesity Way
Part 1 of a 2 part blog.Copy Data Management2015 was the year of science fiction blockbuster movies such as The Martian and Star Wars and more than anything else, this started me thinking about space...
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Cohesity - Architectural Building Blocks - Partitions, ViewBoxes, Views & SMB
Let’s dive deeper and take a look at the architectural constructs which make it possible for the Cohesity platform to consolidate and converge all the secondary storage workflows such as backup, file...
View ArticleRestore an entire job with multiple VMs - Instantly !!
Sometimes there might be a use case of restoring not just a single VM, but restoring an entire job instantly.This feature came handy for one of our initial POC customers who unfortunately got infected...
View ArticleGlobal Google Elastic Search - Restore Files and Folders the Cohesity Way
Restoring files and VMs from a backup job is the fundamental reason anyone would protect their data.Restoring files and folders doesn't have to be complicated or cumbersome, and it should not be...
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