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Deploying a Django Application to Cloud Foundry

This entry was tagged Cloud Foundry Django EMC GitHub Heroku New Relic PaaS Pivotal Python and posted on December 12, 2014

In this post I’ll describe the required steps to configure a Django Pyhton Application for Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry (CF) is an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution developed mainly by the company Pivotal. Cloud Foundry is controlled by the Cloud Foundry Foundation where, among others,EMC, […]

VPLEX Metro with Powerpath/VE

This entry was tagged EMC Powerpath vMSC VMware VPLEX and posted on June 26, 2014

This post is describing the challenges with native VMware multipathing and VPLEX metro. This post is mostly generic and true for other metro storage products and native host multipathing software. Host Access Methods: VPLEX offers two Host Access Methods enabled by the AccessAnywhere Feature (active-active LUN ownership model between directors […]

configuring Isilon for kerberized NFSv4

This entry was tagged EMC Isilon nfs4 and posted on February 25, 2014

This post will describe the required steps to configure an Isilon Cluster for using kerberized NFSv4. There are two supported kerberos server: Microsoft Active Directory and MIT KDC. We will use a Microsoft Windows Active Directory 2012 R2 kerberos server and RFC2307 for user/id mapping. Windows Prerequisites: Windows Active Directory […]

creating Microsoft DNS zone delegation with powershell for Isilon SmartConnect

This entry was tagged EMC Isilon Microsoft Powershell Windows Server 2012 R2 and posted on January 16, 2014

To prepare a Windows Server 2012 R2 for my Isilon lab I used Powershell v4 to configure the required DNS zone delegation. It turned out to be very easy and saved quite a few “clicks”. Therefore I think it is worth mentioning it in this short post: For the example […]

Isilon Rest API using Powershell Part 2: Authentication Options

This entry was tagged EMC Isilon Powershell and posted on January 7, 2014

This is Part 2 of a series dedicated to Isilon and Powershell. In Part 1 we looked at the basics of how to leverage Powershell for REST scripting and ended with a quick example with parts from Jeremy. In this part we will have a more detailed view on the […]

VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 GUI improvements

This entry was tagged EMC VPLEX and posted on December 23, 2013

VPLEX GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1 introduces some great improvements to the GUI.
I think the most awaited feature is the ability to create a distributed device directly from a claimed storage volume (backend LUN)

These five new features are now available with GeoSynchrony 5.2 SP1:

Ability to view a map of distributed devices
Ability to create a distributed device from the storage volume view
A means to save distributed device mappings to a file
Ability to sort virtual volumes by consistency group
Ability to automatically add the ports of a selected initiator during storage view creation

The following video is demonstrating the GUI improvements:

EMC Efficiency Assessment

This entry was tagged CLARiiON EMC VNX and posted on December 16, 2013

Are you an existing VNX or CLARiiON customer? Yes, then you can leverage the free service by EMC to get an overview of your storage system. Just go to EMC Efficiency Assessment and submit one SPCollect and up to seven days of NAR/NAZ files. Bundle the files into a single zip […]

Upgrading VPLEX GeoSynchrony

This entry was tagged EMC VMware VPLEX and posted on December 12, 2013

This video demonstrates an upgrade of a VPLEX Metro Installation from GeoSynchrony 5.2 to 5.2 SP1. The VPLEX installation consists of one engine (two directors) and three backend storages (VMAX, VNX, CLARiiON) in each site.
VPLEX is used by a VMware vSphere 5.5 Metro Storage Cluster demo installation. The ESXi hosts (one in each site) are using Powerpath/VE to keep the IO local and still do load balancing.

Isilon Rest API using Powershell Part 1: Basics

This entry was tagged EMC Isilon Powershell and posted on December 9, 2013

Looking at the Isilon Platform API introduced with OneFS 7.0.2, which is using REST with JSON for communication, I was struggling how to start. At first I tried to use Perl for scripting but as I’m not very experienced in Perl, I was quickly frustrated. Luckily I stumbled across Powershell for REST […]

Isilon OneFS 7.1: SmartPools Lab Setup

This entry was tagged EMC Isilon and posted on November 11, 2013

With the new OneFS 7.1 Virtual Appliance you can easily simulate a multi-tier cluster, using Isilon SmartPools. The Appliance is downloadable here: https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL50362_Isilon-OneFS-Virtual-Nodes-7.1.0.0.zip In my Lab I started with a OneFS 7.1 Cluster consisting of 6 nodes: By default these nodes are forming a node pool called “iq_vmware”: In […]