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LeftHand SAN
I recently had a client who was looking for some of the advantages of VMWare (HA, VMotion, etc…) but didn’t have the required storage infrastructure to do so. We started pricing out SAN storage but...
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Part 1 – Configuring the LeftHand VSA
Part of the LeftHand SAN portfolio includes the LeftHand VSA (Virtual SAN Appliance). The VSA can be loaded into a virtual environment and turns your local storage into SAN storage. So now you get...
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Part 2 – Configure the LeftHand VSA with the CMC
This is the second post in the series. In the first post I explained how to get the VSA, install it in VMware, and set its static IP. In this post we are going to finish the actual configuration of...
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Part 3 – Attaching your LeftHand ISCSI LUN to ESXi
In the first two articles in this series I discussed the process of configuring the LeftHand VSA and preparing a volume for attachment to a VMWare server. A few things should be noted here. -I’m using...
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Part 4 – Attaching your LeftHand ISCSI LUN to Windows Server
Now that we have attached our ISCSI LUN to a ESXi server let’s look at connecting the LUN to a normal physical server. We are going to attach the LUN to a Windows 2003 Server using Microsoft’s ISCSI...
View ArticlePart 5 – LeftHand Scripting
In the last 4 posts I showed you how to configure a LeftHand VSA, create volumes, map them to servers, and then attach them to either a ESXi server or a physical Windows host. Now we are going to...
View ArticleThe LeftHand Backup Script
I know I said that Part 5 would be my last LeftHand post for the time being but I couldn’t resist building a script to test out all of the scripting commands we just went through. So I created two...
View ArticleStorage / SAN Terminology
I realized as I reread my last posts that I used a lot of terminology related to storage and SANs that I didn’t do a very good job of explaining what they actually mean. Additionally you’ll find that,...
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