Upgrading the Nexenta storage in the vLab

First, I’m sorry I have been so quiet on the web, bu I’ve just come back from 15 days of medical leave due to a Bursitus in my elbow, which made it extremely hard to write anything with a cast. But that did not stop me from swapping disks in Nexenta...

Nexenta stats running sample VMware Data Recovery backup

Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta...

Nexenta storage for the vLab

In this post, I will describe the storage design I use for my virtual infrastructure lab. I have been using the Community Edition of NexentaStor for the past two and a half year already. And I can tell already in the first paragraph of this post, that it’s a...