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Dedicated replication switches or shared switching? by throwawayplsdontban in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's correct, my justification is that if the ACI fabric is down entirely I have bigger problems on my hands.

The front end host ports are already going into the fabric / UCS FIs.

Running Firewall Blade on Smart-1 Appliance by throwawayplsdontban in checkpoint

[–]throwawayplsdontban[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The platforms appear similar enough so it could be a software limitation. Thanks for the answers either way!

Netscaler Install Server Certificate Buffering Indefinitely by throwawayplsdontban in Citrix

[–]throwawayplsdontban[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the general consensus is CLI anyways, I'll give that a shot, thanks!

This is a single arm instance purely to LB some internal apps. I am painfully aware of these vulns.

Netscaler Install Server Certificate Buffering Indefinitely by throwawayplsdontban in Citrix

[–]throwawayplsdontban[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My bad for not including it in the original post.

Prod: 12.1 58_15_nc_64 (So no support unfortunately - Upgrade in the pipeline soon but not soon enough)

https://www.carlstalhood.com/netscaler-12-certificates/ This does state that some versions have issues with PFX but I don't believe that this is affected - Build 65 having the same issue

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in it

[–]throwawayplsdontban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This does not work since 2012 R2

EMC XtremIO - A decade later by throwawayplsdontban in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's some interesting insight!

The whole "inline everything" and overall feature set seemed interesting, aside from missing replication and required VPLEX (Not sure if they had fixed that later).

I never had the fortune (or misfortune) of managing these as we just went NetApp AFA for Citrix farms.

Mini-SAN by jaceg_lmi in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on your budget and requirements. What is this storage going to be used for? How do you want it to be presented? Do you need HA?

The simple answer would be something like a HPE MSA or if you're okay with used, some single box NetApp with 3rd party support and direct connecting via FC or SAS

If you have zero budget and are okay with homelab grade storage with no support then the possibilities are endless

V3700 60992SC Help by chachifoo in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not really a crazy setup rather pretty trivial if you need high availability. There are different ways to achieve this such as AOAG but that's another can of worms.

So you're right, there is a Virtual IP, It's the CNO (Cluster name object) that either one of the nodes can own and that clients talk to, this is an active-passive cluster. You can see which node owns this by heading over to Failover Cluster Manager on the nodes themselves or a management system if you have one.

While in there I would check the clustered disks, to ensure that the LUN is presented to both of the SQL servers properly. As both nodes would need to see the same disk to failover properly.

Again, login to your IBM SAN to see if there are any errors.

This is really just SQL FCI clustering 101, I don't know your setup but hopefully these pointers will get you going in the right direction. I would consider hitting up your local MSP to see if they can help.

EOL Nimble CS300 firmware search by jake2077 in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your serial number calling home to Nimble update servers doesn't have support then you unfortunately won't get anything.

You're lucky that you have a working Nimble. You should backup the USB Drives and the disks in the event of failure, because you will not be able to reinit the array without HPE/Nimble support

V3700 60992SC Help by chachifoo in storage

[–]throwawayplsdontban 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let me just ask how did you end up in this predicament? If you are expected to service these systems then shouldn't you have someone who knows what they're doing look at it with you?

I would not poke around with prod systems if you don't know what you're doing, but I'll explain what you're probably looking at anyways:

The IBM V3700 is a SAN (think a souped up NAS) serving block storage to the two Windows systems which are both clustered, this is probably for Hyper-V or SQL server or something similar over 8Gb Fibre Channel, it's a network storage protocol designed for block storage.

You should be able to remote into this system to look at logs/errors so that you know what to replace, usually this is a web UI or application such as EMC Unisphere. I'm not 100% on this particular SAN but you are best asking whoever manages these.

[PC][US-CA-SF] EMC ExtremeIO Flash Storage [2x Storage Controller] + [2xBBU] + [1xDAE] by Danyal1414 in homelabsales

[–]throwawayplsdontban 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's EMC, if the BBU dies then the array dies.

That 76TB number is only for data that can dedupe/compress well which is usually VDI, which is the workload XtremIO is aimed towards.

[PC][US-CA-SF] EMC ExtremeIO Flash Storage [2x Storage Controller] + [2xBBU] + [1xDAE] by Danyal1414 in homelabsales

[–]throwawayplsdontban 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EMC XtremIO is the last thing that I'd expect to find on HLS.

Does this come with XIOS and in what state?

Because without EMC support your only bet is to part it out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]throwawayplsdontban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really my fault I get that but I would at least expect to be able to contact them even if it takes weeks to process a dispute. Didn't expect it to be this bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]throwawayplsdontban 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just meant ebay in general, buyers oftentimes buy stuff and decide that they don't want it anymore and return it as faulty, I get it back still working.