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Quick SimpliVity OmniStack Capacity Script

March 17, 2017 Hersey 5 Comments capacity, OmniStack, SimpliVity

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.

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SimpliVity Effective Storage Capacity

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

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.

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VM Guest Volume Blocksize Report

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

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.

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Adding Disk Space to a VMware Windows Guest

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

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.