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Guest Post: Closing the Server/Storage Virtualisation Gap

By On November 29, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud, Featured, Storage

This is a guest post from Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder of Gluster Inc.

In the virtualization foot race, the server has clearly been playing the role of the hare, with storage—a.k.a., the tortoise—bringing up the rear. The technology innovation in server virtualization got a lengthy headstart on storage and has [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Migrating Petabyte Arrays

By On January 19, 2009 · 5 Comments · In Uncategorized

Background The physical capacity of storage arrays continues to grow at an enormous rate, year on year. Using EMC as a benchmark, we can see that a single array has grown over the years; Symmetrix 3430 – 96 drives, 0.84TB Symmetrix 5500 – 128 drives, 1.1TB Symmetrix 8830 – 384 drives, 69.5TB DMX3000 – 576 [...]

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Replacing the Virtualisation Component – II

By On October 14, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

Thanks to Chuck who pointed out to me SVC’s ability to move virtual WWNs between nodes during replacement. At some stage in the future I may get to play with SVC but I haven’t so far, so this feature eluded me. Question: is SVC the *only* block virtualisation appliance to offer this functionality and is [...]

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Replacing the Virtualisation Component

By On October 13, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

There’s no doubting that storage virtualisation will prove to be a key component of IT architecture in the future. The overall benefit is to abstract the physical storage layer from servers either in the fabric, or through the use of a dedicated appliance or even in the array itself.

Over time, storage resources can be [...]

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