I am pretty active on LinkedIn with the NetApp groups there, and newbie NetApp admins are asking quite often lately about the NCDA exam.
Here are some helpful things to try out on the simulator. Every netapp admin should know them.
Click to continue reading “TIP #7: Using Netapp simulators to prepare for NCDA/NCIE exam”
I just wanted to share a cool bit of information about what one of our Riverbed Whitewater customers is getting as backup to disk and automatic redundancy to “the cloud”. This customer is using Backup Exec 2012, with the Whitewater appliance as a backup datastore.
This customer is storing 66.7 TB of stored data in 4TB of physical and cloud space and will be saving more than $7,000/month with cloud backups because of it!
Click to continue reading “Real dedupe/cost savings results from a Riverbed WhiteWater”
First off, let me say that I live and breathe the terminal. Almost 2 decades playing in unix and linux gives me a strong love for it. I know I am more productive than a pointy clicky loser. BASH ftmfw! (and when I am stuck admin’ing windows systems, powershell, which I am not ashamed to say I have a newfound fondness for.)
Click to continue reading “Tip #6: A better OSX terminal means better productivity.”
A tale of debugging and tech support hell… don’t freaking buy an HBA with a server! Don’t REUSE cards you have laying around if they were sourced from any server manufacturer or different brand SAN.
Click to continue reading “Do not buy your FC HBAs from your server manufacturer!”
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