Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Moving to XtremIO (or any other array)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by brian.wuchner

I was recently asked to help move VMs from one datastore backed by traditional spinning disk to an EMC XtremIO datastore.  I was really excited as I wanted to see the power of an all flash array. As a best … Continue reading →

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Lack of posts

Posted on April 27, 2014 by brian.wuchner

I realized today that I hadn’t posted anything new since December. That’s four full months without a post… normally I would have averaged a dozen posts in this period of time. A few things have contributed to to this lack … Continue reading →

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Migration to Office 365/Exchange Online

Posted on December 30, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a chance to help a small business move their 70 mailboxes to the Exchange Online service. This company was running Windows 2008 with Exchange 2007 on premises installation and we helped them migrate to Office 365/Exchange Online … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI: Getting LUN paths when using EMC PowerPath/VE

Posted on December 9, 2013 by brian.wuchner

A few weeks back I wanted to verify some path counts per LUN. This is typically pretty easy and something that can be written as a one liner using standard PowerCLI cmdlets as such: Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun | Get-ScsiLunPath However, … Continue reading →

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Getting data out of vCOps

Posted on October 3, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been troubleshooting a specific problem where storage latency jumps very high during very short periods of time, usually in the late evening/very early morning hours. The latency is very bad, sometimes in the 2,000ms+ neighborhood. My storage guys see … Continue reading →

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