Nigel commented on my slow provisioning post. I have to agree that Device Manager has its faults. I’m doing some work on Device and Tuning Manager in the coming weeks as I’m installing both on VMware guests. So, I should have some performance feedback. The comment highlights how software still has a [...]
After my previous post on iSCSI testing I promised some more detail. So my test environment is based on the Netapp Simulator version 7.2.1, which you can download if you’re a Netapp customer – not sure if it’s available to non-customers (it should be as it is a great marketing tool) but [...]
Poor provisioning tools annoy me. I’ve been annoyed today. I’ve been changing some VMware metas from 100GB to 200GB on a DMX. Unfortunately they were already presented (but not used) and replicated with SRDF. So I had to:
“Not Ready” the R1 and R2 drives Unmask the LUNs from the FA Split the SRDF relationship [...]
I mentioned as a “Storage Resolution” to look more in-depth at iSCSI. Well I’ve started doing just that today.
The first thing I thought I needed was a working environment. I’m not keen on investing in an entire storage array (at this stage) to do the testing (unless some *very* generous vendor [...]
The WWN Decoder page on my main site is updated. It’s at http://www.brookend.com/html/main/wwndecoder.asp
If I’ve done it correctly, it now handles EMC up to DMX3 and HDS USP/NSC/AMS and also indicates the model type of the discovered device.
If anyone has samples from their arrays which they are willing to share, let me [...]
I tried a bit of nostalgia the other day. From a “freebie” CD-ROM I installed a games emulator for the ZX Spectrum, a personal computer that was hugely popular in the ’80s. The game I installed was called Manic Miner, one of the original platform games. At the time [...]
Lots of talk today about the 1 terabyte drive from Hitachi. In fact the drive is more likely to be about 931GB based on the dubious practice of using decimal 1000′s rather than binary (whilst we’re on that subject, the concept of decimal versus binary does annoy me – what with that and overhead, on [...]
Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba, Samsung and Seagate are getting together as the Hybrid Storage Alliance to promote the use of HDDs with large amounts of additional cache. They’ve set up a (not so snazzy) website at www.hybridstorage.org (check out the builder on the features page – when did [...]
Here’s one of my favourite websites; www.shazam.com. In fact it isn’t the website that is the favourite thing, it’s what Shazam do. In the UK (apologies for US readers, I don’t know your number), dialling 2580 down the middle of your ‘phone and holding your mobile up to a music source for 30 [...]
The new year is here. Everyone loves to make resolutions to say how they are going to improve their lives. Personally I think it is nonsense; if you want to change, then you can do it any time rather than the abitrary time of new year.
Anyway, enough of my humbug. Here’s a few storage [...]
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