A reader named Tom commented on my Matrix to Determine VMotion Compatibility by Processor post today asking “has VMotion evolved at all to the point where differences between Intel chips are less of an issue than they were...
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The Future of storage, or is the disk drive dead?
We are running out of places to put things. Data continues to grow at a frightening rate. According to an IDC study there was about 281 Exabytes of data stored on disk in 2007 word wide. This data is growing at CAGR of about 70%...
Storage Sea Change
Folks,After re-reading yesterday's posting, I had one of those "well DUH" moments. It seems obvious now, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. Block Storage Virtualization (BSV) is creating a sea change for how people are going to...
Block Storage Virtualization
For my first posting I really want to talk about block storage virtualization. I really think that 2008 will be the year that people start to roll this out in production in a serious way. Why? It's the money stupid!Yes, that's...
GRE Tunnels on a Cisco Router
One of my projects involved the configuration of GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnels, encrypted by IPSec, between two locations. I was having some problems getting the tunnels to work properly, but now I've managed to...