Virtual Storage Console 5 for VMware vSphere software is a single vCenter Server plug-in that enables you to manage complete virtual machine end-to-end lifecycles in VMware environments using NetApp storage systems. VSC integrates with the VMware vSphere Web Client and enables you to use single sign-on (SSO) services. In addition, the VSC Summary page enables… Read More »
NetApp created a Project Shift which allows customers to change the virtualization platform their VMs run on without migrating any data (of course VMs have to be located on NetApp storage). Shift currently supports Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Physical (V2P) but also Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migrations between Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V… Read More »
Recently my customer as a standard procedure wanted to check if SRM works well. Unfortunately, they have got problem during come back to the DC with the error: Error - Failed to promote replica devices. Failed to promote replica device '//netapp184/vmware_55/lun_repl'. SRA command 'failover' failed for device '//netapp184/vmware_55/lun_repl'. Failed to map the SAN device on… Read More »