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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Following a few comments on the previous simulator post, it doesn’t look like there are any more simulators out there for general use.
If anyone does know – feel free to comment!
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I love the Netapp simulator (well, apart from the annoying issues with creating and deleting disks) and I use it all the time. It is great for testing ideas, testing scripting and generally refreshing knowledge on commands before having to touch real equipment. I use it with VMware (as I have probably mentioned before) and [...]
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