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Deploying the NetApp Edge VSA Part III

By on February 4, 2013 in NetApp, Storage, VMware

Long over due, but welcome to part III of how to deploy the NetApp Edge VSA. In part I (located HERE) and part II (located HERE) we walked through the procedures of deploying the OVA template, configuring the Data ONTAP software, and creating your first iSCSI LUN. In this installment we are going to step [...]

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Deploying the NetApp Edge VSA Part II

By on January 5, 2013 in NetApp, Storage, VMware

Welcome to part II of how to deploy the NetApp Edge VSA. In part I (located HERE) we covered the deployment of the OVA template and the configuration of the Data ONTAP software. In this post I am going to cover adding your VSA(s) to NetApp’s web interface management utility, NetApp OnCommand System Manager. From [...]

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Deploying the NetApp Edge VSA Part I

By on December 31, 2012 in NetApp, Storage, VMware

Over the last few weeks I have been working and testing VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) in my home lab. In working with SRM my testing  recently has been limited to using host based replication, vSphere Replication that was introduced in SRM 5. I wanted to take the lab experience closer to something that you [...]

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VAAI, Is This Thing On??

By on December 6, 2011 in NetApp, Storage, VMware

Late in the summer we purchased a new NetApp FAS2040 storage array to replace an out going disk based backup target. Since we have ran into a few delays on moving our production vSphere environment to the unit I thought I would test out some of the capabilities it has to offer and more specifically [...]

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