As large organizations begin to look towards cloud computing, many find themselves questioning the suitability of the infrastructure for their business needs. As consumer-focused services like Carbonite lose data and startup-focused systems like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure suffer outages, the … [Read more...]
Planning for Virtual Infrastructure: Avoid the Pitfalls
March 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Today, many companies are considering a compete migration from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. Based on the promises of cost savings, administrative efficiencies, and improved resource utilization, virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less. However, … [Read more...]
Perfection…
March 13, 2009 by 2 Comments
Although I give the various players a hard time; the industry doesn't do everything badly and I try to see the positives as well as the negatives. So I was thinking about the perfect array and what features I would like to see! So a random stream of consciousness produced the … [Read more...]
How to Resize ZFS
February 28, 2009 by 2 Comments
If you've been experimenting with ZFS, as we have, you've been struck by some of its limitations. One of the most common complaints is that it's not flexible in terms of sizing - you have to add a whole new "vdev" (analogous to a RAID set) in order to expand, rather than simply adding new disks one … [Read more...]