Getting back into the Rhythm

Hello everyone,

I've been away from this site for a while, but I'm going to start posting more content.

I'm currently implementing vSphere 4 on Netapp 7.3 and completely loving it.

vSphere 4 represents a no risk upgrade for version 3 customers. The look and feel is very similar, there is no large "retraining" required as it works as its supposed to.

In addition, there is no file system upgrade. Those of you who upgraded from 2 to 3 remember the "read-only" file systems and the pain associated with upgrading the file systems in maintenance mode, the downtime associated with it etc, well there's nothing like that in version 4.

Until I write more, there's a great paper from Netapp:

NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices TR-3749

I'm going through this right now and will summarize the best practices and provide comments on real world implementations.

Good luck and welcome back!

Cheers,

Chris