Archive | August, 2014

Quick Tip: Tuning many VMhosts for All Flash Arrays!

I needed a simple way to push some base tuning configurations to a large number of hosts in my lab.

Make this into a script called tune.sh. Update the naa.999 with the numbers your AFA SAN makes inside your vmware. (naa360 and others are common).

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Quick Tip: Powercli to switch all VMware LUNs to Round Robin

Just for my own notes and quick copy and paste in the future… how to single line switch all luns to round robin on their paths.

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NetApp Cluster Mode TMP Volume type? Huh?

Late last night I was working on a very large CIFS and NFS migration for a customer. This was the culmination of a dual site FAS2050 7mode to FAS3220 cDot upgrade path.

I had originally planned on using the 7mTT (7-mode Transition Tool) to automate this migration. I went through the 7mTT install, core setup, and even planned a few volumes to be migrated by it.

Mid project, I decided against the 7mTT to do it manually. Though, many TMP type volumes were left around.

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