ZFS has some magical features, comparable to NetApp’s WAFL capabilities. One of the less-used on is the ZFS send/receive, which can be utilised as an engine below something much like NetApp’s SnapMirror or SnapVault. The idea, if you are not familiar with NetApp’s products, is to take a snapshot of a dataset on the source,…
The goal – connecting multiple Oracle ASM snapshots (same source LUNs, of course) to the same machine. The next process will demonstrate how to do it. Problem: ASM disks use a disk label called ASMLib to maintain access even when the logical disk path might change (like adding a LUN with a lower ID and…
It has been a long while, I know. I was busy with life, work and everything around it. Not much worth mentioning. This, however, is something else. I have discovered an issue with Citrix XenServer 5.0 (probably the case with 5.5, but I have other issues with that release) using NetApp through NetApp API SR…
XenServer is a wonderful tool. One of the better parts of it is its powerful scripting language, powered by the ‘xe’ command. In order to capture a mass of snapshots, you can either do it manually from the GUI, or scripted. The script supplied below will include shell functions to capture Quiesce snapshots, and it…
This is an interesting bug I have encountered: The output of an sssu command should look like this: EVA> DELETE STORAGE “Virtual DisksLinuxoracleSNAP_ORACLE” EVA> It still leaves the snapshot (SNAP_ORACLE in this case) visible, until the web interface is used to press on “Ok”. This happened to me on HP EVA with HP StorageWorks Command…
When one wants to achieve fast provisioning of virtual machines, some solutions might come into account. The one I prefer uses Linux LVM snapshot capabilities to duplicate one working machine into few.
This can happen, of course, only if the host running VMware-Server is Linux.
LVM snapshots have one vast disadvantage
