Cluster lockdown is the ability to disable password based CVM access and/or only allow key based access. Generate an RSA key pair from Linux $ ssh-keygen –t rsa –b 2048 Public key available at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Private key available at ~/.ssh/id_rsa Generate an RSA key pair from Windows Use PuttyGen Select the type of key to…
Synchronous Replication is a feature where data is synchronously replicated between two sites in metro availability configuration. In an event of a disaster on any one site, real-time data is available on the other site. The protection domain can be configured for metro availability or for synchronous replication depending on the following: Metro availability: The…
After completing the NCP, the NCAP was the next goal on my list. I began to prepare for this in a similar fashion to how I did with the NCP. The first step was of course, to download the Exam Blueprint. As with the NCP guide, a big credit again goes to Steven Poitras, and…
A storage container is a defined subset of available storage within a storage pool. Storage Containers allow you to apply rules or transformations such as compression to a data set. Logical segmentation of SP containing groups of VM’s/files (vDisks). Typically have 1:1 mapping with datastore VMware Storage presented via NFS (default) or iSCSI AHV Storage…
The Health dashboard displays dynamically updated health information about VMs, hosts, and disks in the cluster. To view the Health dashboard, select Health from the pull-down list on the left of the main menu. Screen Details The Health dashboard is divided into three columns: The left column displays tabs for each entity type (VMs, hosts, disks, storage…
Configuring Alert Emails Prism Central allows you to configure the alert messages sent by Prism Central. To configure alert settings, reporting rules, and message templates, do the following: Configuring Alert Policies The system monitors a variety of conditions and sends an alert whenever one of the alert conditions is detected (when alerting is enabled). There…
Advanced Pages CVMIP/DNS:Port 2009: Stargate page to monitor backend storage Check QoS Queue and OpLog QoS queue (admitted/outstanding IO’s) Cache hit rates should be 80-90%+ if workload is ready heavy for best possible performance Check Avg Latency, Avg Op Size, Avg. Outstanding 2009/latency: Stargate page backend latency 2009/vdisk_stats: Stargate page histograms of I/O, latency, writes…
Prism currently supports integrations with the following authentication providers: Prism Element (PE) Local Active Directory LDAP Prism Central (PC) Local Active Directory LDAP SAML Authn (IDP)