I was recently briefed on the latest Symantec Disaster Recovery Study (2010), the details of which can be found here. Some 1700 companies (of 5000 employees or more) were interviewed about various aspects of their backup environments. As usual with these kind of surveys, there were some interesting results (I [...]
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III
One essential feature in any home NAS [...]
This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts:
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I
I read the following interesting news release from VMware today. It covers lots of new features for the future release (3.5) of VMware but the one that caught my eye discusses a new feature called VMware Storage VMotion.
This feature will apparently allow the migration of a VMware virtual disk between different storage [...]
A while back, I commented on how CCI was a pain in the proverbial **** because specifying the replicated LUNs required them to be presented onto a port/HSD. Snig kindly pointed out that although the LDEV needs to be presented, you can now just use the LDEV number rather than the complicated [...]
For those people who use TrueCopy on a daily basis, you’ll know that the assignment of a TrueCopy pair is based on a source and target storage port, host storage domain and LUN. This means a LUN has to be assigned out to replicate it.
The part that has always worried me is [...]
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