Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
If you have used Citrix ShareFile, you probably already know that it’s a great product – either standalone, or integrated with the XenMobile Enterprise suite. One place where ShareFile can be a bit tricky is file recovery – file restores are a manual process and involve some PowerShell. Fortunately, there are built in APIs that allow 3rd party solutions to integrate and make restoration a bit easier – for example when your local storage zone is … Read more…
I use FreeNAS to store the virtual machines for my lab. I had previously used NFS as it allowed for really simple backups of VMs – take a snapshot, do a copy from the snapshot directory to a different dataset, remove the snapshot, done. NFS is nice because it allows you to view the filesystem directly from the storage server…NFS on FreeNAS\ZFS is not nice because it essentially requires flash for the intent log due to … Read more…
Let me preface this post with 2 things: It’s going to be short and sweet It assumes you’re using NFS for your datastores (which you should be – since writes are SYNC, the snapshot should be clean) First, you need somewhere to move the backing files – in my case, I take a tiered storage approach. VMs run on several spindles of 10K SAS; CIFS storage is on a few 2TB SATA drives; offsite is … Read more…