The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varying discplines. Following the presentations from 3Par and Symantec, there was heated debate about the implementation of Thin Provisioning and the ability to reclaim released storage resources. This post covers the basic concepts of Thin Provisioning [...]
A recent post from Martin “The Bod” Glassborow got me thinking about the whole process of LUN consolidation. I’ve done lots of migrations where people quake at the thought of changing the LUN size from one array to another. Now, I almost always want to change LUN sizes, as the vendor specific [...]
This week I’ve been working on two interesting (ish) problems. Well, one more interesting than the other, one a case of the vendor needing to think about requirements more.
Firstly, Tuning Manager (my old software nemesis) strikes again. Within Tuning Manager it is possible to track performance for all LUNs [...]
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