Stick a Needle in Your IOPS
What are IOPS anyway? Simply put, they are Input/Output Operations Per Second, and they are meaningless. (How many IOPS do you think I can get this thing up to, anyway?) Wait, what? How could I...
View Article#NAS4LIFE
I’m a NAS girl when it comes down to it. Before I did the whole SaaDJ (Storage as a Day Job) thing, I was a VMware architect and administrator with a huge environment. My previous knowledge of...
View ArticleClustered Data ONTAP, Laying a Foundation for a Virtual Data Center
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage ......
View ArticleNetApp VSC, Yeah You Know Me
If you’re a NetApp customer, and you’re running a VMware environment, you must be using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere. Right? I sure hope so. If you aren’t you should be, and...
View ArticleCan’t Mount Drobo 5D? DiskWarrior May Help
I was strolling through the park one day, in the merry merry month of May. Well, not really, but there’s a Drobo 5D in my house that has years and years worth of pictures on it. Why did I get ......
View ArticleMy Sessions at #NetAppInsight 2016
This year, I’ll be heading to #NetAppInsight Las Vegas for the first time as a presenter. NetApp Insight is where the original Vanna White FlexPod pose originated back in 2012, if you’ve been keeping...
View ArticleHow to Use Veeam Backup from Storage Snapshots
One of the things I have always found amazing with Veeam is the Backup from Storage Snapshots feature. The quick description of this amazing feature is that it performs your backup from your storage...
View ArticleChia Plotting and Farming on My 2016 MacBook
If there’s one thing I’m good for, it is the latest Internet sensation. I started paying with cryptocurrencies several years ago to play the CryptoKitties game, which was based on Ethereum. Let me...
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