After NetApp on May 5. July a brand new hyper converged system on the basis of Solidfire has announced today was presented the well-known converged system FlexPod on the basis of SolidFire. But let’s start from the beginning… What is ever FlexPod? FlexPod is a converged system by NetApp and Cisco. And are you now… Read More: NetApp Announces the FlexPod with Solidfire »
For some time, we´ve been penetrated by Crypto Trojans. Locky or WannaCry have proved the world that simple antivirus cant protect you from all. Most companies quickly notice a large infestation of file services. You will notice encrypted files in nested folders is rarely used to make matters worse less quickly. Which Admin clicks through… Read More: Active protection and free Ransomware check for NetApp FAS systems »
As announced in my last post, NetApp has published today just his hyper converged infrastructure HCI. And so the box looks. On four rack units, we find both compute and storage units. The four rack units are derived based of the Solidfire, which is therefore in the minimal configuration with four nodes. The configurations for… Read More: Presentation: NetApp hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) »
Hello together, last week NetApp has provided me, through a Distributor, a SolidFire test position to “Play”. The “baby” came in a pre-assembled “travel crib” and was completely wired. Connect only the power, turn, race to the fuse box and securing a make again and there you go. The standard equipment you connect a monitor… Read More: NetApp SolidFire: First steps »
NetApp MetroCluster over IP? Enthusiasts some NetApp may now cry out. It was always a law Mäßigkeit however, since year and day, that I for the NetApp MetroCluster either need long SAS cable or a fabric in the backend are got, which is exclusively for the MetroCluster available. How is DerSchmitz only on the heretical… Read More: Does the NetApp MetroCluster over IP? »
In one of my last posts I had described that the NetApp AFF A200 seen from a hardware perspective, nothing is as the FÁS 2650. One of the differences is that in the A200 AFF all efficiency mechanisms by default are active. In FAS 2650 you are able to activate inline efficieny afterwards. That is… Read More: How to enable NetApp inline deduplication on non AFF or… »
As in the AFF A200 announced contribution, I would like to you at this point the advanced disk partitioning v2 (ADPv2) by NetApp closer. Should be generally known that NetApp FAS / AFF systems 99% with RAID-DP (a kind of RAID 6) run. Double parity RAID-DP is available for RAID. I have two parity drives… Read More: What is NetApps ADPv2 and how does it work? »
In some cases, the database of a vcenter server may be running. Most of the time, this is the Express edition of SQL Server 2008, which is limited to a database size of 10GB. Often, the reason for running the database is a value that is not set or too high for keeping the logs… Read More: Cleaning up the vcenter Server 5.5 database without SQL Management… »