Hu Yoshida has an interesting view on his recent post discussing storage utilisation rates. His concluding remark suggests running at a maximum of 60% utilisation – even with Dynamic Provisioning. Hu, you must be joking, right?
Point 1: I’ve paid for my 100% of storage and I’m going to use it. I don’t [...]
Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills.
There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product. I’ve used it many times – it does the job. However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago [...]
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 [...]
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