Recently in my lab I ran out of diskpace.  I was not able to clone VMs, nor power on VMs. In the past when this happened I had to Storage vMotion VMs off the storage, delete the VMFS partition, then delete the volume and create it again, format it as VMFS, and Storage vMotion the … Continue reading Expanding VMFS datastores →

I had a customer ask me about using active directory accounts with NetApp HCI.  So here is how to do that.  Of course this does imply you need a NetApp HCI infrastructure to work with. Start on the LDAP screen.  Which is under the Cluster option. Now when you enable you will see a bunch … Continue reading NetApp HCI and Active Directory →