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From the monthly archives: May 2007

Mine’s bigger than yours – do we care?

By Chris M Evans On May 11, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Our resident storage anarchist has been vigorously defending DMX - here. It’s all in response to discussions with Hu regarding whether USP is better than DMX. Or, should I say DMX-3 and Broadway (whoops, I mentioned the unmentionable, you’ll have to shoot me now).

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Simulator Update

By Chris M Evans On May 9, 2007 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

I managed to get a copy of the Celerra Simulator last week and I’ve just managed to get it installed. Although it is simple, it is quite specific on requirements – it runs under VMware ACE as a Linux program. It needs an Intel processor and can’t run on a machine with VMware already installed. [...]

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Port Oversubscription

By Chris M Evans On May 9, 2007 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Following on from snig’s post, I promised a blog on FC switch oversubscription. It’s been on my list for some time and I have discussed it before, however it has also a subject I’ve discussed with clients from a financial perspective and here’s why; most people look at the cost of a fibre [...]

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Tuning Manager CLI

By Chris M Evans On May 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I’ve been working with the HiCommand Tuning Manager CLI over the last few days in order to get more performance information on 9900 arrays. Tuning Manager (5.1 in my case) just doesn’t let me present data in a format I find useful, and I suppose that’s not really surprising as, unless you’re going to add [...]

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