Thanks to everyone who’s taken the time to read my semi-focused rants over the past 12 months. I’ve been grateful for the interaction and comments, good or bad.
You’ll see the site has a new design. Over the coming 12 months I hope to blog more than ever and to cover technologies in more depth [...]
This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.
As part of my work at Storage Fusion, I get to dig into the inner workings of storage arrays in a way most people don’t (either through inclination or time). One interesting anomaly we discovered this week was the variability in capacities of CLARiiON disks. What results from this is that the capacity [...]
I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max. Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following:
Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space Reclamation reduces capacity requirements and total cost of [...]
This is the last in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays. Previous posts in this series can be found here:
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy DMX-3 [...]
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc. Previous post(s):
Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device. I’ve now managed to get the [...]
I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s only fitting I virtualise the IT infrastructure I rely on.
In [...]
My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed. As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time. It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted. After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the [...]
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