Author: Bhavin Shah
As some of you might know, I work as a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Converged Infrastructure Group at NetApp. As part of my day job, I work on designing reference architectures for FlexPod. FlexPod is a predesigned, best practice data center architecture that is built using the Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus family of switches, … Continue reading FlexPod Datacenter with Microsoft Exchange 2016 and SharePoint 2016
This is the second post in my AWS Storage Series. In this blog post, we will talk about AWS Glacier. AWS Glacier is a secure, durable and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. The best part about Glacier is its cost, you can archive data in Glacier for as low as … Continue reading AWS Storage Series: Glacier
Amazon Web Services has a considerable number of Storage services that people can use for different use cases. Initially, I was thinking of consolidating all that information in a single blog post, but that wouldn't do justice to all the services. Hence this series for AWS Storage Services. Throughout this series we will focus on … Continue reading AWS Storage Series: S3
Increasing storage capacity in a production or even a lab environment can be tricky. You need to make sure that all the stakeholders are aware of this effort, but more importantly, you need to make sure that you increase capacity in a non-disruptive manner. Over the past couple of weeks, I had to add extra disk … Continue reading Hot Adding Disk Shelves to your NetApp controllers
In the last blog post, I wrote about how we can configure Active Directory Domain Service in the Azure Cloud. So this time I decided to focus on AWS and walk through the steps that are needed when you are facing the following two scenarios: Configuring a custom Active Directory(AD) domain and DNS servers for … Continue reading Configuring DNS services in AWS
The first question that people might have after looking at the title of this blog post is: "Why would I need to configure AD Services in Azure if it already offers a managed service?" I was thinking the same thing when I ended up configuring AD services on my VMs in Azure. The reason I … Continue reading Configuring Active Directory Domain Services in Azure Cloud
Running VMware vSphere on NetApp ONTAP is as good a combination as peanut butter and jelly. And it’s not just me who is saying that NetApp and VMware have more than 50000 joint customers that are eating that sandwich. In this blog post, I have listed most of the best practices that you should consider … Continue reading Best Practices for running VMware vSphere on NetApp ONTAP
