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  • Using the AWS CLI to Collect Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Information

    Feb 10, 2023 EBS Amazon Web Services
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    Most of my recent blogs have been focused on not just how to “do” something, but provide some information on how things work. This specific blog will cover how we can use the AWS CLI to gather information and format it in a way that is useful. This collection will provide not only information about an EBS volume, but also the instance that is attached, identify the boot volumes and even provide the instance type.

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  • Site Recovery Manager - Rename Datastore After Recovery

    Jan 17, 2023 Site Recovery Manager
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    During a failover, or whenever a datastore is re-signatured VMware will append snap-PREFIX-DataStoreName. In some cases, this will break automation, and in general you may not find your datastore! This blog will cover how to get Site Recovery Manager to rename the datastore to the original name after recovery.

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  • How to Map an Raw Device Mapping (RDM) to a Pure Storage Volume using PowerCLI

    Jan 10, 2023 RDM PowerCLI
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    When running operations against an RDM, you may need to know the backing volume. Unfortunately with RDM’s there is no easy way to identify this without doing a manual comparison between vCenter Server & the Array. This post will explain how to map an RDM to a Pure Volume to extract the Name and Serial number of the backing volume.

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  • Build and Publish a Powershell Module to the Powershell Gallery

    Sep 1, 2022 Powershell
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    In this blog we will dive into what is a Powershell Module, how its changed and then what can we do to build and publish the module to the Powershell Gallery. I recently did this presentation again at VMworld Explore 2022 and it was a hit, so I figured its finally time to get it here on the blog so it can be referenced and viewed year round.

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  • :DRAFT: Pure Storage Cloud Block Store and Cloudsnap in AWS and Azure

    May 2, 2022 Azure Amazon Web Services Storage Cloud Block Store Cloudsnap
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  • Understanding Block Storage in Amazon Web Services

    May 2, 2022 Amazon Web Services Storage
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    When running workloads in the Public Cloud such as Amazon Web Services, you have a bunch of options when it comes to block storage. How do you know which one to pick? There are alot of choices–tradeoffs, features and sprawl can also occur. In this blog I will cover the different types of disks available to help educate you on some of the purposes and limitations of each. I previously covered what this looks like in Microsoft Azure and figured now would be a good time to cover the differences in AWS.

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  • :DRAFT: Running AWS RDS Custom SQL Server on Pure Cloud Block Store

    May 1, 2022 Amazon Web Services RDS SQL Server Cloud Block Store
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    When Running Databases in the Cloud, Specifically in AWS you have two options, IaaS or PaaS. When using traditional RDS you need to utilize Standard EBS Storage. With the Introduction of RDS custom, you now have the ability to gain acccess to the underlying operating system which now allows us to utilize external storage! Keep reading to learn about the benefits and setup!

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  • Understanding Block Storage in Microsoft Azure

    Apr 29, 2022 Azure Storage
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    When running workloads in the Public Cloud such as Microsoft Azure, you have a bunch of options when it comes to block storage. How do you know which one to pick? There are alot of choices–tradeoffs, features and sprawl can also occur. In this blog I will cover the different types of disks available to help educate you on some of the purposes and limitations of each.

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  • Using Terraform to Deploy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance

    Jul 30, 2021 Terraform VM Analytics vSphere Plugin
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    Ive previously covered what’s new in the Pure Storage VMware Appliance and how to deploy it via PowerCLI, lets take a look at how to deploy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance using Terraform.

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  • Using PowerCLI to Deploy the Pure Storage VMware Appliance

    Jul 29, 2021 PowerCLI VM Analytics vSphere Plugin
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    Now that the latest Pure Storage vSphere Client Plugin is available as a remote plugin is is now deployed as an OVA. I have put together this quick script to automate deploying of the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

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