There’s been a few references to Invista over the last couple of weeks, notably from Barry discussing the “stealth announcement”.
I commented on Barry’s blog that I felt Invista had been a failure, due to the number of sales. I’m not quite sure why this is so, as I think that virtualisation in [...]
After the recent EMC announcements on DMX-4, I promised I would look at the question of whether the new DMX-4 is really as green as it claims to be. I did some research and the results are quite interesting.
Firstly we need to set the boundaries. One of the hardest part of comparing [...]
I’ve been using the HiCommand CLIEX (the extended CLI) today. It differs from the normal CLI in that it talks directly to the array via a command device and bypasses both Storage Navigator and Device Manager. HDS have needed this way of communicating with an array for a long time.
On the one hand, CLIEX [...]
I’ve closed the USP poll and the results are as follows;
It rocks! What a great DMX basher! 30% It’s OK, some of the new features seem useful. 15% It looks like just like the old USP but slightly faster 40% I don’t see what all the fuss is about… 10% What’s a USP-V? 5% [...]
Nigel has posted the age old question, which is best EMC or HDS? For those who watch Harry Hill - there’s only one way to sort it out – fiiiiight!
But seriously, I have been working with both EMC and HDS for the last 6 years on large scale deployments and [...]
I love the Netapp simulator (well, apart from the annoying issues with creating and deleting disks) and I use it all the time. It is great for testing ideas, testing scripting and generally refreshing knowledge on commands before having to touch real equipment. I use it with VMware (as I have probably mentioned before) and [...]
Hu posted an interesting view of storage utilisation here. His view is that virtualisation on the USP would improve on the average 30% utilisation. I have to say that I disagree with this. There are lots of reasons why storage remains unused in the enterprise:
inefficient administration by Storage Admins, SAs and [...]
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