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Hersey March 17, 2017 6 Comments capacity, OmniStack, SimpliVity

Quick SimpliVity OmniStack Capacity Script

This is a quick script, SVT-Fed-Capactiy.ps1, I put together using Powershell and the SimpliVity REST API to report available, free, and used capacity information for OmniStack Clusters in a SimpliVity Federation, and the OmniStack hosts in each Cluster.

SimpliVity Storage vHersey

Hersey May 16, 2016 3 Comments backups, capacity, compression, data, deduplication, DVP, SimpliVity

SimpliVity Effective Storage Capacity

The SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes all data, at inception, once and forever, globally. When sizing a SimpliVity environment we take into account the capacity efficiency provided by the SimpliVity DVP, the effective capacity.

PowerCLI Storage vHersey

Hersey January 18, 2016 0 Comments blocksize, capacity, freespace, PowerCLI, powershell

VM Guest Volume Blocksize Report

This is just a quick script I put together for a fellow SA to generate a HTML Report contianing details on the configured volumes for all running Windows Guest VMs. The HTML report shows the Name, Label, Filesystem Type, Allocation Unit (Blocksize), Capacity, and Free Space.

vHersey VMware

Hersey April 30, 2014 3 Comments capacity, hard disk, vmdk, vmware, Windows

Adding Disk Space to a VMware Windows Guest

It is very easy to add capacity to a virtual hard disk on Windows guest. For a Windows guest running Microsoft Windows 2008 or newer it can be done without any special utilities while the virtual machine is running.