Storage

Understanding Data Storage: File, Block, and Object in the Age of AI

Storage Juan Mulford - September 23, 2024

In today's digital landscape, data storage is more crucial than ever, especially with the rise of AI workloads, Generative AI (GenAI), and Large Language Models (LLMs). Whether you're an individual managing personal files, a business handling vast amounts of information, or an organization developing AI solutions, understanding different storage types can help you make informed decisions.

Expand the Storage Pool Capacity of your Synology NAS

NAS Juan Mulford - March 6, 2021

In this guide, we will expand a Synology NAS storage pool. If you have empty drive slots on your NAS, you install additional drives and add them to an existing storage pool to increase your NAS capacity and performance.

Synology DiskStation DS1520+ Overview and DSM Initial Setup Guide

NAS Juan Mulford - February 24, 2021

Installing a Synology NAS is easier than you can imagine. In this article, I will show you how to set up and install a Synology NAS for the first time. Also, how to use its dedicated operating system DiskStation Manager (DSM) and perform basic configurations.

TrueNAS CORE Key Features Overview

Storage Juan Mulford - July 1, 2020

TrueNAS software has been built on the top of FreeNAS, making it a solid Open Source base for iXsystems enterprise products. We are excited to explore and expand on this platform’s latest features, which is considered the world’s number one Open Source storage software with over 10 million downloads.

RAID configuration in Windows 10

Storage Juan Mulford - August 3, 2019

Redundant Array of Independiente Disk (RAID), is mandatory in the storage industry. Whether you work with enterprise SAN or a home NAS, more often than not, you will be required to configure RAID. But what about a home PC?

PowerCLI + VMware 6.7 Storage Best Practices

VMware Juan Mulford - March 6, 2019

In this blog post, I want to share some of the most used best practices when working with storage arrays and VMware ESXi hosts, using PowerCLI. These configurations, are in particular for AFAs on iSCSI.

Storage capacity

Storage Juan Mulford - March 2, 2018

It is not a surprise for averages techie consumers and anyone working in IT that the storing capacity of storage devices like hard drives...

Running IOmeter on mutiple machines

VMware Juan Mulford - February 22, 2018

What: How to run IOmeter on multiple machines. Here I am using VMs but the same concepts apply to physical computers. If you have been working...

ESXi iSCSI initiator unable to scan Targets

VMware Juan Mulford - October 28, 2016

I tried to scan new created LUNs from my storage array and for unknown reasons, one of the ESXi hosts my cluster couldn’t find targets, where all the other server could.

Storage devices

Storage Juan Mulford - October 18, 2016

Storage devices is the first topic that anyone studying and working in the storage industry should be related to; it is the foundation for...

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Raspberry Pi OS in a Virtual Machine with VMware

Juan Mulford - November 13, 2020 4

Although the Raspberry Pi OS is designed and optimized for the Raspberry Pi module, it is possible to test and use it without its hardware, with VMware. This solution can be useful if you are a developer (or just a curious guy) and don't have a Raspberry Pi module with you

Unable to delete an "inaccessible" datastore

Juan Mulford - March 8, 2019 7

I was switching my storage array, so I migrated the VMs from that old datastore/storage to a new datastore/storage. The old datastore was shared by 3 ESXi hosts, no cluster. After migrating the VMs and unmount/delete the datastore, it was still presented in two of the ESXi hosts and was marked as inaccessible.

This is not a valid source path / URL - SourceTree and Gitlab

Juan Mulford - February 29, 2020 1

I have been working on a project with a friend who set up a repository in Gitlab but even though I was able to view all projects on it, I couldn’t really join the repository. I was using SourceTree and Gitlab.

How to export a Virtual Machine using the VMware OVF Tool

Juan Mulford - April 5, 2020 9

The VMware OVF Tool is implemented by VMware for easily importing and exporting virtual machines in Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard format. Here, I want to show you how to download and install it, and then how to use it from a Windows machine.

Couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new

Juan Mulford - December 1, 2021 5

couldn't load private key - Putty key format too new.” This issue happens when you use PuTTygen to generate or convert to a ppk key. Here is how to fix it.