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EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To…

EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To VMware MGMT VM EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To… VMAX3: Creating the RDM Volumes and Associated Masking View This is an example Masking View for a two node ESXi cluster on which the VMAX management virtual machine shall reside: 1. Create a Port Group with […]

Mostafa Khalil 
Storage General

How to identify if an ESXi host is booted from PXE?

Have you ever wanted to find out if an ESXi host is booted from PXE? In ESXi 5.0 and later, a handy CLI based tool, bootOption, can help you accomplish this task. This is available at the DCUI or via SSH. The syntax to use is: # bootOption -p The output can be one of […]

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Events Storage General

Storage Troubleshooting Boot Camp – Partner Exchange 2012

I will deliver vSphere 5 Storage Boot Camp at Partner Exchange 2012 in Las Vegas on Sunday February 12, 2012. The session is free to Partner Exchange 2012 attendees and will be 4 hours long starting at 8:30am Here is the session details: VMware vSphere 5 – Storage Troubleshooting Learn basic to advanced levels of […]

Mostafa Khalil 
Storage General

Dell EQL Multipathing Extension Module for vSphere 5 Installation and User Guide

Dell has completed the certification of EQL Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) version 1.0.9 with vSphere 5.0 earlier this month. I attached the installation and user guide here (Dell-110-6093-EN_MEM_Guide_50) I will have a chapter in my book dedicated to 3rd party multipathing plugins which includes this plugin.

Mostafa Khalil 
Events Storage General

VMworld 2011 Copenhagen

I will be presenting the following session at VMworld 2011 in Copenhagen: VSP2376 “Performance and Scalability Enhancements in VMware vStorage VMFS 5” Scheduled for Thursday October 20 at 14:00 Additional sessions by my colleagues are listed at Yellow Bricks blog by Duncan Epping  

Mostafa Khalil 
Storage General

Welcome to vSphere Storage blog!

Welcome to vSphere Storage blog! Content of this blog does not represent official VMware content or contributions. Please keep your comments/contributions clean and professional. Thank you in advance for your contributions. –Mostafa

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