They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.
Review: DroboPro – Part II
December 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc. Previous post(s):
Review: DroboPro – Part I
Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device. I’ve now managed to get the ‘Pro connected and visible within ESXi. See [...]
Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?
November 26, 2009 By 3 Comments
I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years. Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage. None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol. Invariably block storage has been implemented using fibre channel and file using CFS [...]