Once you have configured the Solaris cluster , you have to add the quorum device for additional voting process. Without Quorum devices, cluster will be in installed mode. You can verify the status using “cluster show -t global | grep installmode” command.Each node in a configured cluster has one ( 1 ) quorum vote and […]
How to Deploy VMturbo Operation Manager ?
Virtualization reduced the infrastructure cost by utilizing the hardware more efficiently and offers lot of other benefits.But Managing the virtual infrastructure is one of the difficult task since thousands of virtual objects are involved. Since the virtual machines are sharing the hardwares, we have to identify the critical virtual machines and needs to configure the service […]
How to configure Solaris two node cluster on Solaris 10 ?
Once you have installed the Solaris cluster on Solaris 10 nodes, you can start configuring the Solaris cluster according to the requirement . If you are planning for two node cluster, then you need two Solaris 10 hosts with 3 NIC cards and shared storage .You have to provide two dedicated NIC for cluster heartbeat.Also […]
How to install Solaris Cluster 3.3 on Solaris 10 ?
Here we will see how to install oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 u2 on Solaris 10 x86 system. I haven’t showed any interest on Solaris cluster but getting many requests to write about it. So i took some time and now i am back with Solaris Cluster series articles which will help you to setup the […]
How to Create a Fake SSD on VMware ESXi for Testing VSAN ?
I have been trying to test VMware VSAN on my VMware workstation . One of the important requirement for VSAN is solid state drive. So i have been in such a situation to make the virtual harddrive as SSD. After lot research over the internet , i have found trick which has been shared by […]
Manually Download VMware tools ISO image from VMware
How to download the VMware tools manually from the VMware website ?. In most organizations, there will be a dedicated VMware support team and where the guest operating will be managed by the windows or Linux/Solaris team according to the operating system model. In this support model, you need the VMware team’s help to attach […]
How to add additional physical NIC to existing VMkernel Link ?
We may need to add the additional network interface card to existing VMkernel link to reduce the network overhead and balance the network load between two are more physical interfaces. Having more than one physical NIC also adds the network redundancy. I have been in a situation to increase the dedicated VSAN network performance due […]
What is VMware’s VSAN ? How to Implement it ?
VMware is offering different piece of software to utilize the all type of x86 hardwares in the world.Virtual SAN is another great achievement of VMware which helps you to eliminate the costliest SAN network and costlier NAS storage devices. VSAN algorithm is very simple and smart. When you buy a server, by default it will […]
VSAN Deployment issues and Fixes
You can’t successfully deploy any software product in the first shot. I have successfully deployed VSAN in my third attempt . It also differs to person to person and their knowledge but some people will never complete it .Here i would to share the issues what i have faced during the deployment.First thing that, I haven’t […]
How to create VSAN diskgroup on VMware ?
In this article ,we will see how to create VSAN diskgroup on vSphere environment.As a prerequisites, we have already setup the dedicated VSAN network and VSAN cluster setup. To create VSAN diskgroup, you should have minimum one SSD (solid state drive) and one magnetic disk. SSD is very import to improve the read and write speed […]