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I recently did a VMware project using an EMC Clariion CX3-10c and VMware 3.5 update 2. The plan was to use the ISCSI front end ports on the CX3-10 for VMware ISCSI storage connectivity. The design included two dedicated Cisco 3650g switches for the ISCSI network and two dedicate gigabit NICs on the ESX host [...]

Flying back to Charlotte tonight.  I’m somewhere over the east coast.  I wonder if the GPS on my iPhone would work up here…..  I better not risk taking the plane down.  Chuck Hollis posted a good discussion on his blog concerning the management of a consolidated I/O fabric, whether it be 10GigE with FCoE or [...]

I’m all over the place this week.  Tonight I’m at a cool little coffee shop in Providence, RI enjoying an excellent latte and some gingerbread while trying to ignore the woman on the other side of the room with the really annoying laugh.  Yesterday Joe put up another great post about VMware and NFS.  Articles [...]

Greetings from a Starbucks at the Charlotte airport.  I’m here waiting to board my flight to Boston for a week at the EMC office.  Last night I put together a quick video showing how to configure an iSCSI target and LUN on an EMC Celerra and then connect to that LUN from a Windows host.

Celerra [...]

Recently I have set up a SRM environment in a virtual lab for testing and performing demos.  I took the opportunity to create a video giving an overview of Site Recovery Manager.  The video walks through a normal configuration and then a test failover.  It’s a simple environment but will give someone a complete picture [...]