Recent content by KapsZ28

We ended up going with option 4.

Here are all three options. Option 3 means using core routers for the ESXi hosts to access storage.

Access and distribution will be Arista and core is Brocade.

I just wanted to see if this network design makes sense or if there is a better way it can be done. The current setup doesn't include the distribution layer, but there is also only one cab with servers and storage. So right now cab 3 goes directly to cab 1 and cab 2. Since I will be adding a 4th...

My bad. I just assume going to ansible.com was the way to go and saw the pretty looking Red Hat Ansible Tower. I now see other instructions for setting it up on CentOS.

Free is definitely preferred. I do keep hearing about Ansible a lot, but it doesn't look like they have a free version.

I am looking for something like Puppet or Chef that can be used for automation. It needs to be agentless, and preferably free or at least not very expensive. I would like it to at least work with Windows and VMware, but support for Linux and network devices would also be nice. I was considering...

The VSS issue turned out to be a VMware issue with multi-pathing. They disabled multi-pathing and now it is working correctly.

So although virtual RDMs support snapshots, it is not recommended with bus sharing? What app based backup would you recommend? I believe the physical storage is 3PAR, but they are using DataCore SANsymphony.

Backups... Have a customer with many physical RDMs and on more than one occasion the VSS writer could no longer take snapshots and therefore Veeam Agent backups would fail. With a virtual RDM I don't have to worry about Microsoft's VSS writer since VMware snapshots can be used with a typical...

Thanks for the article, but that seems to be the same as the 5.5 article I was reading. Virtual mode only for cluster in a box and physical mode for cluster across boxes. VMFS also only supports cluster in a box. Cluster in a box is only good for guest OS failures and maintenance. No protection...

Yes. I thought that was pretty obvious from what I wrote. ;)

It seems difficult to find a solid answer to this question. VMs are running on vSphere 5.5 across multiple ESXi hosts. VMware documentation says both physical and virtual are supported in this configuration but physical is recommended. The same documentation also states, "Clusters across...

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Get an external cloner where you put the source and destination drives in it. Makes an exact copy. I had issues with the EFI partition and the external cloner did the trick.