EMC Symmetrix BIN file, largely an unknown topic in the storage industry and practically there is no available information related to it. This post is just an attempt to shed some light as to what a BIN file is, how it works, what’s in it and why is it essential with the Enginuity code.
Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage
October 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an appliance it may be impossible.
EMC Clariion Systems: Global Hot Spares & Proactive Hot Spares
August 3, 2009 By 2 Comments
EMC Clariion RAID-6 requirements and limitations
July 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Is Unified Fabric an Inevitability?
March 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Protocols, Religions and Heresy!
March 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve just come back from a NetApp training course; good course and recommended for anyone who wants to pick up some storage fundamentals, it covers all the NetApp bases and by the end of it, you should be fairly confident to do pretty much all the day-to-day routine tasks that you might be asked to do as an administrator of a NetApp array.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Storage Automation
February 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The first storage performance horseman is spindles: If you don’t have enough disk units, performance will suffer. I have been laying out storage on enterprise arrays since the dark ages, and one of the first lessons I learned was allocating data to avoid hotspots. I remember spending hours back in the 1990’s hunched over custom Excel spreadsheets trying to get my storage layout just right, balancing the workload across every available disk.