Links for January 18, 2009:
- Check your VM’s alignment… Yellow Bricks – Duncan Epping on a possible forthcoming tool from NetApp to realign misaligned VMDKs: “I know NetApp is working on a tool called “mbralign”. This tool will make it possible to align the filesystem from outside the VM.”
- NetApp – Storage Nuts & Bolts: Unified Host Utilities Kit 5.0 for ESX is Released – “Last week we released a Unified version, 5.0, of the Host Utilities Kit for ESX server. There are some changes, as well as some new additions to the Kit. First of all, a new script has been added called config_nfs which sets the appropriate NFS Heartbeat parameters. The filer_info script has been renamed to controller_info and it now supports SSL. In fact, SSL is also supported for the config_hba and config_mpath scripts. There’s a new utility that has been added, called mbrscan. The purpose of mbrscan is to identify wheather or not a VM has properly aligned partitions.”
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