HDS announced today a few amendments to the AMS/WMS range. The most interesting is the apparent ability to power down drives which are not in use a-la-Copan.
According to the press release above, the drives can be powered down by the user as necessary, which presents some interesting questions. Firstly, I guess [...]
Thanks to everyone who commented on the previous post relating to using virtualisation for DR. I’m looking forward to Barry’s more contemporaneous explanation of the way SVC works.
I guess I should have said I understand Invista is stateless – but I didn’t – so thank’s to ‘zilla for pointing it out. [...]
It’s good to see virtualisation and the various products being discussed again at length. Here’s an idea I had some time ago for implementing remote replication by using virtualisation. I’d be interested to know whether it is possible (so far no-one from HDS can answer the question on whether USP/UVM can [...]
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