Running vCentre as an appliance is becoming more common and with the latest version its very appealing over running as a Windows server. Updating the virtual appliance to a newer version of vCenter is easily done and the following will illustrate the process to upgrade vCenter appliance 6.0 Update 1 […]
Dell EqualLogic’s can be configured to work as a group and share storage in a storage pool. Volumes can then be configured from the storage pool and stretch across the members. The following will should how to remove a active member and move the live data onto a remaining member. […]
The following will show the procedure to remove a volume. This example the volume is a VMFS volume presented to ESXi hosts. First remove the volume from the ESXi hosts. To do this first migrate any live VMs running on the VMFS datastore and also browse the datastore to check […]
The following will show how to create a new volume on a Dell EqualLogic and present it to a Windows server using MPIO. Login to the group with an account with the relevant permissions. Choose Volumes at the bottom left hand side. Right click Volumes - Create volume Give the […]
Setting up a new Dell EqualLogic is straightforward first connect a serial cable to the active controller and log in with the default credentials Username - grpadmin Password - grpadmin Select to configure the array and allow for the initial initialisation Once complete enter the member name for this array […]