The long-awaited whitepaper, Splunk SmartStore on FlashBlade is finally here, right on time before the Splunk Conference that starts on Monday, Oct 21st, 2019 and can be found at this link. Thanks to Splunk for listening to their customers’ request to reduce the Splunk storage usage by disaggregating the storage from compute which not only …
Looking forward to the fourth edition of Pure//Accelerate conference that is packed with over 100 breakout sessions. This year Accelerate conference is held at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX between Sep 16th and 18th. This year I am very happy to present a breakout session on Splunk under the content type, Build a Data …
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Most of Pure FlashArray customers are used to the snapshot functionality that helps them in taking either a crash-consistent or application-consistent snapshot in a flash (literally and figuratively) irrespective of the database size. While this helps them in protecting the database from any accidental changes or creating clones for development and test usage but cannot …
This blog post will go over the steps to connect FlashArray volumes over iSCSI on RHEL variant Linux systems (RHEL, Oracle Linux, CentOS). Required package on RHEL for iSCSIiscsi-initiator-utils Multipathing packagedevice-mapper-multipath High level process with iSCSI Setup iSCSI at the initiator Setup Host at the FlashArray level Discover the iSCSI targets Create a volume, attach …
To preserve the device names across reboots in Linux, udev rules is the recommended option. The idea is to extract SCSI device’s unique ID and assign it to a symbolic name that will persist across reboots. To get the SCSI device’s unique ID, Linux command scsi_id can be used. On VMware, you might run into …
