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Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

By On January 20, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation

They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.  Here’s what happened.

Failing Disk

I [...]

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ESXi: Learning The Hard Way

By On January 20, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Featured, Virtualisation

They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.  Here’s what happened.

Failing Disk

I [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?

By On November 26, 2009 · 7 Comments · In GestaltIT, Storage

I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years.  Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage.  None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol.  Invariably block storage has been implemented using fibre channel and file using CFS [...]

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Personal Computing: Drobo Weirdness

By On October 19, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Storage

Hmm, I’ve found a small bug with my Drobo which is making me slightly nervous.  Have a look at the first graphic.  I’ve exceeded a single 2TB logical drive in terms of capacity (as I now have two 2TB and two 1TB physical drives installed).  In this instance the Drobo has created me a second logical drive, which [...]

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