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An idea for File Integrity Monitoring a powered off View Gold Template

by on May 28, 2015 in Misc, NetApp, VMWare

Today I had an interesting question posed to me by a customer.

“What’s a way we can verify file integrity compliance of our VMware View gold image, at regular intervals, WITHOUT powering it on? Because powering it on would force us to recompose all VMs once it’s powered down again”

In order to verity file integrity of a VM, there will need to be a file integrity check at some point in time. [PCI DSS 11.5] This is not a point in doubt. The question arose regarding regular scheduled checks on file integrity, at a pre-set interval. That’s the key. They need to ensure it weekly or monthly.

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Netapp AltaVault – Speeding up, Cutting costs, and Cloudify your backups

by on May 27, 2015 in Misc, NetApp

Riverbed Whitewater. Riverbed Steelstore. It’s bigger. It’s updated. It’s been supercharged! It’s the Netapp AltaVault! Learn how this can cloudify your backups, and reduce costs too!

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Netapp 8.3 NCDA NS0-157 Study Guide

by on May 20, 2015 in Certifications, NetApp

Since I am getting requests from people who enjoyed my last NCIE-SAN study guide, I figured I would make a new one for the latest and greatest NCDA NS0-157. WORK IN PROGRESS

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A look at Netapp’s NDMP Cloud Extension Software (NCE)

by on April 29, 2015 in Misc, NetApp, TIPS

Hey, you got a small Netapp? Hey, ya wanna do some backups to Amazon S3 or a compatible object storage system (aka Netapp StorageGrid Webscale)? NCE is for you!

The official blurb on it:

NDMP Cloud Extension Software (NCE) is a host-based utility that transfers data between Data ONTAP® storage systems and the Amazon® Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) cloud. You can transfer data to Amazon S3 by using the ndmpcopy command. The ndmpcopy command is executed from a Linux host, which communicates with the storage system to transfer data to Amazon S3. Data transfer is supported at the volume, qtree, directory, or file level.

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Netapp 7m Exports to cDot Export Policy convert script

by on April 17, 2015 in Code Snippets, NetApp

A coworker asked me is I could whip up a script to convert hundreds of lines large 7-mode /etc/exports files into Clustered Mode Export Policies and client rules.

No problem. Nothing is too hard for some ugly bash scripting.

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A rough outline on a possible BSidesLV 2015 talk

by on April 13, 2015 in Misc, Presentations, Security

I want to do a session at this years BSidesLV security. This is my rough outline I just threw together of what I would want to cover.

Any comments? Critiques? Please tweet at me. @jk47theweapon

Introduction to Storage Network Security

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Migrating From a UCS FI6248 to Mini 6324

by on March 30, 2015 in Misc, NetApp

I have the luxury of working for the most awesomest storage and Cisco VAR in the world, as their Principal Technologist. We have a few different groups of engineers. Our networking team staked claim on the existing UCS and FI6248 Fabric Interconnects that we have in our lab for break/fix testing.

This meant that our demo and test VMware environment needed a new home. We really didn’t NEED another full set of big daddy FI’s in the lab, and the big boss didn’t want to buy another full set of FI6248s. We simply need a test environment for me to give classes with, that’ll support up to 600 VMs. A UCS Mini was perfect. This is how I got passed the hurdle of migrating the configuration from a FI6248 to FI6324.

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VMware NFS Datastore creation failure w/ OnTap 8.3 (aka NIS needs to die!)

by on January 19, 2015 in NetApp, VMWare

You’ve created datastores in VMware a thousand times before. This time is different. This time it failed to make it. You had just upgraded or installed a fresh shiny new Netapp OnTap clustered mode 8.3 system!

It doesn’t matter if you did it manually, or did it with VSC (Netapp’s Virtual Storage Console). It still failed to create.
NIS domain services could be messing you up!

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Upgrading my FAS3270 OnTap 8.2.1 to 8.3RC1 in my lab

by on November 13, 2014 in NetApp

Well, it’s time! This morning the first release candidate of OnTap 8.3 was released! Happy day!

I figured I would post about the upgrade process. A raw, uncut, look at how the hell you do it! Maybe you have never seen it. Maybe you just want to have something to copy and paste. Well, here it is!

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Storage Field Day #6: Livin La Pure’a Vida

by on November 10, 2014 in Misc, Presentations, Pure, Tech Field Day

Last year, I went to Costa Rica. The greeting they have for everyone was Pura Vida: “Good Life”. That has a new meaning for me now.

As you may know, recently, I was a delegate for Storage Field Day 6 #SFD6. I had the pleasure of heading to Pure Storage’s HQ. Read on to see what I found out!

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