Blog Series: Metro – Break Stuff 5 – Failing a PowerStore
In the last episodes we failed an entire datacenter with and without a witness. This time we will be failing a PowerStore
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Blog Series: Metro – Breaking stuff 4: Failing DC + witness
In the previous episode we shut down an entire datacenter. AS we did not have a witness service present, the recovery wasn’t
Blog Series: Metro – Breaking stuff 3: Failing DC, no witness
In the previous episode of breaking stuff we powered off all hosts in one of the datacenters… Not really eventful as we
Blog Series: Metro – Breaking stuff 2 – Fail all hosts in a DC
After we killed the datacenter interlink in the last episode, today we will be pulling the power from all hosts in one
Blog Series: Metro – Breaking stuff part 1 – Interlink failure
Now that have are done describing the lab in the last episode, we are ready to go out and break stuff! Today
Blog Series: Metro – Lab Setup overview and walkthrough
In this episode we will be leaving the History of Metro (which I covered in part1, part2 and part3). Let’s look at
Blog Series: Metro – A brief history of Metro pt.3
Continuing the brief history of metro from part 2 of the series with some things that really help in building out a
Blog Series: Metro – A brief history of Metro pt.2
In the previous “a brief history of metro” blog post (part 1) I discussed replication and metro and how they are “the
Blog Series: Active/Active Metro in VMware environments
You may ask yourself: Why blog about a VMware environment? In parallel to “learn to crawl before you run” I feel that a lot of people working with kubernetes have a requirement (or at least THINK they have a requirement) for active/active metro storage solutions under their kubernetes setup. Building out a metro environment seems really easy, but as I run through this series you’ll discover that metro is anything-but-simple; there are many things to consider… Things that VMware figured out in their stretched cluster setup where kubernetes will struggle. I hope that people will start to see what metro is all about when I revisit the world of Virtual Machines.
Blog Series: Metro – A brief history of Metro pt.1
In order to fully understand metro configurations, let’s first look at the history of things. The earliest ways of recovering from datacenter