Dependent hardware iSCSI adapter on ESXi5 – Gabes Virtual World

May 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The virtualization space seems a little light on technical content lately. There are plenty of event announcements and white paper or webinar promotions, but few posts on, you know, how stuff works. Here’s the incomparable Gabrie Van Zanten to change that, with a deep look at iSCSI configuration in VMware. It’s good to see that [...]

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EMC denies big server biz plans … but IS building servers

May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

So EMC’s not going to become a server vendor even though, as Chris Mellor points out, they showcased some very nice purpose-built server hardware at EMC World. And even though Jeremy Burton admitted they were, kinda, making and selling servers. Why?

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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V & Network Card (NIC) Teaming

May 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A great little piece on NIC teaming with Windows. Aidan Finn says his mind is changed now that it’s included in Windows Server 2012 and fully supported for Hyper-V and failover clustering.

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NPV and NPIV

May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Tony Bourke really stirred up a hornets’ nest with this one! Who would have thought that “storage NAT” would be so controversial? He followed up with a second post on analogies for NPV/NPIV…

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Server Hardware Explained

May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We’ve loved Brien Posey’s series on server hardware. Now that it’s wrapped up (all 9 parts!) it’s worth a look at the whole.

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OpenFlow @ Google: Brilliant, but not revolutionary

May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Google built their own switches using merchant silicon. Now they’ve built their own routers, and they’re using OpenFlow between the control and data plane. Here’s Ivan Pepelnjak’s take on the news, the hype, and the reality.

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Brocade: Yet Another SDN Strategy

May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment

It doesn’t sound like Ivan Pepelnjak is all that enthusiastic about Brocade’s OpenFlow/SDN strategy. It’s not that he sees a problem with the strategy itself, just the “us first” marketing tone…

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Last Week’s Leavings: Avaya and HP | Twilight in the Valley of the Nerds

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Double dip bad news from Brad Casemore: Avaya is still not showing anymore signs of growth and HP is looking at even more cuts. It’s depressing to see two storied companies struggling like this.

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So Your Boss Thinks You’re Stupid – Converged Infrastructure

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

An interesting thought about converged infrastructure. As Dwayne says, “the issue that I have with converged infrastructure is that it’s solving a problem that these companies helped to create.”

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Virtually Pragmatic?

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Martin “Storagebod” Glassborow suggests two reasons EMC reversed course on virtualizing behind the VMAX: Maintaining margin on controllers and adapting to a flash-filled world. Both are reasonable ideas.

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