Intro Okay, you see the title, and I know what you’re thinking: ‘This guy’s about to defend a technology that belongs in a museum next to a dial-up modem.’ And you’re not wrong to be skeptical. For years, the industry has treated Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) like a fossil from the Jurassic period, a relic […]
Category: FlashArray
Beat the Final Boss: A Unofficial Guide to Proxmox & Windows TPM Snapshots on Pure NFS
Intro Ah, the hypervisor migration. That special project where you trade a familiar environment for a brave new world of command lines and wiki pages. It’s all fun and games until you hit those Day 2 operations that were once muscle memory. Suddenly you need to recover that critical, TPM-enabled Windows VM after an admin […]
Migrating FlashArray iSCSI Networks: A Practical Guide for vSphere Admins
Let’s be honest, one of the biggest cheat codes in IT is working directly with customers. They have a knack for asking the best questions! The kind that skip the theory and get straight to the practical, real-world challenges. Learning a new technology can make me feel like I’m fumbling around in the dark, but […]
The Unofficial Proxmox & Pure Storage Cookbook: NFS with nconnect
This blog provides the unofficial steps to configure Proxmox VE to use an NFS share from a Pure Storage FlashArray. Configuring this will allow you to have a shared volume for your proxmox hosts so that you can leverage features like High Availability. I will also include performance optimization with nconnect. This is my preferred […]
The Unofficial Proxmox & Pure Storage Cookbook: iSCSI with Multipathing
In this blog we will be setting up ProxMox with Pure Storage as a central iSCSI LVM device that provides shared storage for a Datacenter Cluster. It’s my personal opinion that NFS is far easier to setup and can still be a performant option with nconnect enabled. I would recommend reviewing using NFS on FlashArray […]