This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array.
The VSP is the first enterprise array from Hitachi that offers support for 2.5″ drives. We’ve seen these Small Form Factor (SFF) models for some time [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seagate have announced the availability of the next generation of Savvio 2.5″ drives running at 15K. Capacity is increased to 146GB (I’m waiting for confirmation this is the case as there are no data sheets online yet).
The capacity increase is overdue to keep up with the [...]
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