StorageNewsletter.com is carrying and article about our new SAN infrastructure choice around IBM N series and Zerowait SimpleStor products. Here is an excerpt: Zerowait Corporation, provider of independent NetApp support and off- lease systems, announced that NewPush, a global application and data-warehouse hosting company, has selected Zerowait to architect and manage NewPush’s NetApp and IBM [...]
Migrate ProxMox KVM Storage from local to NFS on netapp
Proxmox KVM storage migration from local to NFS In order to be able to use the live partition migration in Proxmox, the KVM partition needs to be on NFS or iSCSI. Here is the process for an NFS storage. – shut down vm – rsync -av /var/lib/vz/images/<VMID> /mnt/pve/<NFS VOL>/images/ – edit /etc/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf – change ide0: [...]
Planning for Storage, Server, and Network Infrastructure
Questions to ask when planning storage and server infrastructure Storage Requirements What our their current storage environment? (What technology do we use? NetApp, EMC, HP, Hitachi, Compellant?) What is our current amount of usable storage? What is our current data in GB / TB? How much of that data is deemed critical as opposed to [...]
NetApp downgrade firmware
Downgrading firmware on a NetApp SAN If you have just reclaimed a shelf from a NetApp SAN that you would like to use with an older head, you will notice that the drives are not recognized. This is due the the fact that DataOntap upgrades the drives automatically when you plug them in to an [...]
NetApp route add default gateway
NetApp SAN default gateway setup DataOntap is a FreeBSD based operating system built by NetApp. However, most of the command line interface commands differ from the usual FreeBSD commands. When a new NetApp installation is performed, or a NetApp migration is needed, typically the IP address needs to be changed, as well as the default [...]