In today’s data center industry there is a misconception about the storage snapshot as a Backup. The main one is storage snapshots are not backup, they are just point-in-time copies. It’s unclear from where the idea came from. Backup is a collection of data stored on (usually removable) non-volatile storage media for purposes of recovery…
In my previous blog, I discussed how to set up the ZFS File system in Ubuntu 18.04 and setup ZVOL for Microsoft SQL Server Databases In this post let’s discuss on how to set up the Disaster recovery plan for the Microsoft SQL Database with the ZFS replication, For that, I set up the Ubuntu…
When I am setting up the Disaster recovery plan for the MS SQL Databases in ZFS Volume, I faced permission issue while running ZFS send/receive command from a non-root account So my sender is vignesh and the receiver is ubuntu both are a non-root account On the sender side, I used these permissions And on…
RAID with any filesystem / Storage array or with JBOD it comes with three main benefits. Performance Capacity Integrity Performance is how fast you can access the data / write the data into the filesystem and it is measured with Input / Output per second aka IOps and usually measured in megabyte per second and…
In this post, we will see how to install ZFS on Ubuntu and present a ZVOL through iSCSI protocol to a Windows Machine for SQL Database First I created a Linux Ubuntu x64 Virtual Machine and installed the Ubuntu 18.04 Server using the server iso file available in the Ubuntu website After installing the Ubuntu,…
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Connect-VIServer -Server servername Get-VM -name vignesh-VM-1 | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name ‘disk.EnableUUID’ If that command returns no result or the value is false, you won’t see the disk serial number inside your OS. To Enable to DISK UUID, Refer this blog disk-serial-number-is-not-set-for-windows-server-2016-on-vmware-vsphere/
Storage capacity consumed by multiple unnecessary data copies costs businesses as much as $44 billion annually, according to IDC. It estimates that redundant copies of the same data ( copy data) account for more than 60% of enterprise disk storage capacity. The redundant copies are compounded by rational practices intended to protect the business with…
Like every computer needs harddisk VM or Cloud Instances are no exception. In Amazon, EBS is the virtual hard disk for your EC2 instances, it stores data as blocks and it is like a traditional file system you can format it with any file system and use EBS is not a stand-alone storage, you cannot…
Backup applications for the Virtualized environment back up the Virtual Machine at the image level and are not aware of what is going on inside the installed guest operating system. So before you back up your Virtual Machines you should ensure they are quiesced so they are in a consistent state to be backed up….