It’s probably fair to say that data migration is one of the most tedious tasks in storage management. Moving data from one array to another, simply to decommission a piece of hardware or for load and capacity balancing, doesn’t ever inspire me. But it’s a necessary evil and one I’ve done many times. Unless the [...]
Last week VMware issued this advisory on their knowledge base, recommending the disabling of VAAI Thin Provisioning reclaim in ESXi 5.0. Apparently it seems to be causing “poor performance’ during certain vSphere actions like Storage vMotion. The “cause” section contains the somewhat vague comment as follows:
VAAI Thin Provisioning is enabled by default [...]
Last week I took part in a special Infosmack recording at the HDS Bloggers’ Day. You can find a link to the recording here, via The Register;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/hds_storage_virtualisation_podcast/
Unfortunately we still didn’t have the Hu v Claus benchpress competiton, but hey….
In this picture are:
Greg Knieriemen – @knieriemen [...]
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 [...]
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning. Here are some of the highlights:
First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items. I’d go a step further than Martin and suggest that thin [...]
I’ve just been reading through the press release from HDS on their new AMS enhancements. Hu Yoshida has blogged about the new features too (it makes a change to hear something different than another discussion on UVM). There’s now HDP support as well as dense storage trays capable of holding 48 drives [...]
I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously, I have [...]
Hitachi has announced (10th September) the availability of a new storage array, the USP-VM. At first glance this appears to be the USP-V equivalent of the NSC55 as it has very similar characteristics in terms of cache cards, FEPs etc. Unfortunately HDS have provided links to specification pages not all of which include [...]
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