NFS – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

Create CentOS based NFS Share for vCloud Director

magander — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:00:18 +0000

Updated 2018-09-20: Not creating partitions on the /dev/sdb disk. Original Post Published: 20 November 2014. —————————————————————————————– It was quite a while ago i had to create a Linux based NFS share for a 2 x vCloud Director (vCD) cell setup. For some reason Windows based NFS shares have been used during my latest vCD implementations. Below …

Successfully delete a Nutanix Container

magander — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:51:36 +0000

I received two questions on the same topic last week so i figure i’ll put together a blog post. The subject was “Cannot delete a Nutanix Container for my vSphere environment” !! A Nutanix Container is the logical unit, created from the Nutanix Storage Pool, where you store your virtual machines (VMs) and or files. A …

vSphere ESXi 5.5U1 and NFS All Path Down patch

magander — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:52:37 +0000

As you might know there has been a known issue with vSphere ESXi 5.5U1 where the ESXi host intermittently can lose NFS connectivity and an All Paths Down (APD) is observed. This issue could result in: Blue screen in Windows based virtual machines Read only file systems for Linux based virtual machines. The patch also fixes the …

vCloud Director Management cluster disaster recovery

magander — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:07:05 +0000

A while ago i needed to perform a vCloud Director (vCD) management cluster disaster recovery. There are four main sections in the blog post: Infrastructure – describes the infrastructure used by the vCloud Director Management cluster environment. Rollback reasons – describes why the HP LeftHand P4300 storage volume rollback was carried out. Rollback preparation – describes …