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…
Shadow Copies are possible for almost all volumes and not “all volumes”. There are few cases which the shadow copy may not work Enough Space The shadow storage volume must contain enough free space. At the very minimum you need at…
I’ve been developing an automation scripts to provision and expand VMFS Datastore. Expand not Extent… I increased the storage volume size and need to increase the size of VMFS datastore without affording the downtime Here is the VIjava / YAVI Java code for…
Inconsistent Backup The oldest type of backup probably not consistent. The process of taking the backup was so simple, backup application starts at the beginning of a file structure and copies all of the data until it reaches the end,…
Setup iSCSI Initiator iSCSI Initiator is by default installed in Windows 7. You can access it from Control Panel or Administrative Tools Click on iSCSI Initiator If the service is not running it will prompt to start the service,Click…
Setup Environment I have one Ubuntu server for iSCSI target and one Windows Machine for Initiator Target Server vignesh@vignesh-server:~$ sudo su root@vignesh-server:~$ apt-get update root@vignesh-server:~$ apt-get install iscsitarget Note : If you have changed the kernel version (Upgraded your Ubuntu…
