"Remember kids, the only difference between Science and screwing around is writing it down" -Alex Jason (made popular by Adam Savage)
Not long ago I posted about our initial release of our vSphere Plugin that supports the HTML-5 UI–the main problem though is that it did not yet support the VVol stuff we put in the original flash/flex based plugin. So accordingly, the most common question I received was “when are you adding VVol support to …
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Phew that title is a mouthful. Sorry about that. But at least you know what I’m gonna talk about here. Nothing particularly profound, but obviously something every customer must do. I’ve been on a solid PowerShell kick as of late so why not put pen to paper here. So whether you are using VVols or …
A VVol datastore, is not a file system, so it is not a traditional datastore. It is just a capacity quota. So when you “mount” a VVol datastore, you aren’t really performing a traditional mounting operation as there is no underlying physical storage to address during the mount. So instead of mounting some storage device, …
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I’ve been making a lot of updates to my PowerShell module around VVols recently and this was the last “table stakes” cmdlet I wanted to add. There are certainly more to come, but now we definitely have the basics. In 1.2.2.1 release of the PowerShell module I added a cmdlet called Mount-PfaVvolDatastore. As of today …
Registering VASA providers is the first step in setting up VVols for a given vCenter, so automating this process is something that might be of interest to folks. We currently have this process in our vSphere Plugin, as well as in our vRO plugin, and of course you can do it manually. What about PowerShell? …
Finally! I know… You have been waiting for this and so have I. Our first release of our vSphere Web Client Plugin that supports the HTML-5 interface is officially released. Let’s walk through what it looks like! The HTML-5 interface is vastly superior to the flash/flex based one, not only due to more accurate readouts, …
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We just released an updated plugin for vRO today that is fully certified by VMware and is available on the VMware marketplace: Download it here. What are the new features? Well a lot–some various bug fixes, but this is mostly about new features: ActiveCluster support Enhanced protection group information Throughput limits Volume Groups Pure1 REST …
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Happy New Year!! I don’t plan on this being a long post, but as I type this I think “Well I don’t really even have a plan on what this post will be”. So I take that back–this post will be of an indeterminate length. 2018 was an interesting year–for better or for worse I …
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One of the fundamental features of the operating environment running on the FlashArray™ is the fact that the same software can run on many different hardware implementation of the FlashArray. This is one of the reasons that we can offer hardware Non-Disruptive Upgrades or when we introduce new features (even things as expansive as VVols) …
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I have released a new version of the VMware/Pure PowerShell module which can be automatically installed from the PowerShell Gallery. Pure Storage PowerShell VMware Module Updates in this release are focused on VVols. Creating VVol snapshots, copying them, creating new disks from them, retrieving them etc. Version 1.1.0.2 I wrote a blog post below on …
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