The discussion on EMC’s VTL has got StorageZilla and other EMC’ers a little excited. It stems from Barry’s post on the DL6000, a Godzilla of a VTL as I’ve previously discussed before.
I think it is worthwhile reviewing the exact point of having a VTL [...]
Old Barry’s at it again with the DMX pitch, this time for VTL.
Here’s a quick comparison with Copan’s Revolution 220TX system and the specification of the DL6100 from EMC’s website.
Copan Revolution 220TX
Single Cabinet 896 drives (500GB SATA) Power (max): 6368 watts Throughput: 5.2TB/hour Capacity: 448TB max Emulation: 56 libraries, [...]
For those people who use TrueCopy on a daily basis, you’ll know that the assignment of a TrueCopy pair is based on a source and target storage port, host storage domain and LUN. This means a LUN has to be assigned out to replicate it.
The part that has always worried me is [...]
There have been so many discussions on thin provisioning since the Hitachi USP-V announcement. When a major player takes on a specific technology, all of a sudden we realise that everyone else has already been doing it. Tony Asaro’s post probably provides the best summary of those who do it today.
One [...]
There’s another new product out this week from HP – the XP24000… It seems to have some similarities to another product launch, 224 ports, thin provisioning, partitioning…
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Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll on Optimiser/Cruise Control; seems like most people like the recommendations but don’t trust it to make automatic changes.
I’ve got a new poll running for the next month – tell me what you think about USP-V. Now I’m *sure* there will be lots of opinion on this…. [...]
I spent today building some Cisco MDS9513 switches. It’s good to get into the nuts and bolts of technology once in a while. They are big beasts – 2nd generation technology and with 11 usable slots, the biggest available line cards (48 ports), 528 ports in a single chassis. However the build had one fly [...]
I hate it when I write a post then think of other things afterwards. One more USP-V thought (I’m sure there will be more). One of the drawbacks of the current hardware with virtualisation is the effort to remove/upgrade the USP. Was there anything in the announcements on Monday to cater for this? I was [...]
It seems from the posts seen so far on the blogosphere that the USP release is causing a bit of a stir (10 points for stating the obvious I think). So, here’s my take on the announcements so far.
First of all, it’s called USP-V – presumably because of the “Massive 500-Percent Increase in Virtualized [...]
I’ve reached 100! No, not 100 years old, but my 100th post. I’ve surprised myself that I’ve managed to keep going this long.
So a bit of humour – I’ll save the USP-V discussions until later – who remembers Storage Navigator for the 9900 series?
Well, the [...]
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