New support for VNX/VNXe Storage Arrays

When it comes to VMware integration, two of my favorite pieces of software now support the new EMC VNX/VNXe product range. The first link below is to one of Chad’s latest posts covering the latest release of the VMware vCenter plugin. The second link goes to PowerLink where you can read more on the new features [...]

Replication Manager 5.3 brings support for NFS on Windows VMware Proxy

Since Celerra NFS datastores have become supported by both Replication Manager and VMware Site Recovery Manager, I’ve been migrating Celerra customers off iSCSI to NFS mainly because of the overhead needed to facilitate Snapshots/Replication of iSCSI luns. In versions prior to 5.3 you needed to have a Linux host configured as the VMware Proxy to allow snapshots of NFS datastores, but the [...]

EMC Replication Manager 5.2.3 with a couple of Celerra fix’s

I’ve seen a number of times recently a scenario where a Replication Manager jobs starts to fail with an error indicating the Celerra file system holding the iSCSI lun is full. The cause of the problem is Replication Manager fails to clean up a failed snapshot, when the next job runs it fails because there is no longer [...]

iSCSI or NFS with EMC Celerra ?

There has always been a lot of debate in the VMware community about which IP storage protocol performs best and to be honest I’ve never had the time to do any real comparisons on the EMC Celerra, but recently I stumbled across a great post by Jason Boche comparing the performance of NFS and iSCSI storage using the Celerra NS120, you can [...]

EMC Replication Manager With vSphere 4 and LVM.EnableResignature

Ive had Replication Manager 5.2 integrated with VMware VI3, hanging off an EMC Celerra using iSCSI for some time now, and ever since vSphere was released Ive been meaning to test the functionality to make sure everything works and to see if there are any changes. Now having set this up with 3.5 update 4 [...]