Some days ago we discussed the prerequisites for provisioning VVOLs on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and vSphere 6. We have installed the NetApp Virtual Storage Console 6.0 and NetApp VASA 6.0. In this post we will see how VVOLs work in practice: create a Storage Capability Profile (SCP) provision a VVOL datastore some tests of… Read More »
As I described in my another post What's new in vSphere 6.0 - Virtual Volumes, VVOLs let you manage your storage at the virtual machine level instead of the datastore level. NetApp is one of the first storage vendor supporting VVOL. In this post I will show how to configure VVOL to be able to… Read More »
I wrote some posts about vROps - vRealize Operations Manager (aka vCOPs). Now we know how to deploy and configure vRealize Operations Manager and if necessary how to migrate vCOps to vROps. I showed how to deploy Hyperic Server and integrate with Operations Manager. Hyperic server is a component used to monitoring 3rd applications or… Read More »