Convergence: The Early Days “Convergence” is a buzzword seen in the IT press constantly these days. All convergence means is placing communications that used to ride on its own network onto one unified network; Ethernet’s cheapness, ubiquity, and ever-growing link speeds makes it the … [Read more...]
Don’t Drop The Baby: Data Center Bridging Wants Storage To Trust Ethernet
October 8, 2010 by 1 Comment
Windows Storage Server-Based Systems Step Into 2008
May 5, 2009 by 2 Comments
Windows Storage Server is one of the most interesting products from Redmond. It is a specialized version of Windows Server 2003 R2 with integrated storage target capabilities, including iSCSI, NFS, and of course SMB file services. It also includes single-instance storage (file-level deduplication), … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Scalability in the cloud
February 17, 2009 by Leave a Comment
We think of web apps as what belongs in the “cloud”. Virtualization is changing this so that both small and enterprise apps are a fit. To me there can be an internal cloud and an external cloud. As virtualization continues to evolve, we will see the lines blur between both. I recently … [Read more...]
P2V strategy for a Physical Server with an iSCSI Partition
January 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Most physical to virtual migrations (P2V) of servers end up as virtual machines with the partitions encapsulated in virtual disk (.vmdk or .vhd) files. But what if the physical server already has a partition that’s configured through an iSCSI connection to the SAN, and what if that’s the same … [Read more...]