Storage Standards – Arrays
After a recent posting by Stephen I thought it would be good to discuss standards and the sort of standards I’d look to implement when designing an infrastructure from scratch. Obviously it isn’t always possible to start from a clean slate and consequently many sites have what I describe as “partial [...]
Continue Reading This Post →HDS announced today a few amendments to the AMS/WMS range. The most interesting is the apparent ability to power down drives which are not in use a-la-Copan.
According to the press release above, the drives can be powered down by the user as necessary, which presents some interesting questions. [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I did some more work on my NTFS issue on Friday. As previously mentioned, I was seeing NTFS filesystems with large levels of fragmentation even after drives were compressed.
The answer turns out to be quite simple; Windows doesn’t consolidate the free space blocks which accumulate as files are created and deleted. So, as a [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This week I’ve been working on two interesting (ish) problems. Well, one more interesting than the other, one a case of the vendor needing to think about requirements more.
Firstly, Tuning Manager (my old software nemesis) strikes again. Within Tuning Manager it is possible to [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve just read a couple of Gary O’s postings over at Thoughtput, the blog from Gear6.
In his article “Feeding the Virtual Machines”, he discussed NAS and SAN deployment for a virtual environment and makes the bold claim:
“Most [...]
Continue Reading This Post →LeftHand, FalconStor, Arkeia and Datacore all now offer VMware appliance versions of their products. I’m in the process of downloading them now and I’m hoping to install over the next few days and do some [...]
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