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 [...]
Continue Reading This Post →IanHF talked recently about LUN sizes and establishing standards across the enterprise. The choice of LUN size is a subject I’ve bored people with ad nauseum over the years and this is a good opportunity to go over it again.
Why Bother?
Ian’s post goes into more detail than the [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Following on from my Personal Computing: Drobo Wierdness, I have received a replacement unit from Data Robotics. I thought for a change I’d produce a video and so here is my attempt to swap out my drives into the new unit. In the end I formatted the existing drives as four [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Day 2 of the Tech Field Day kicked off with a trip to Ocarina Networks. For those who don’t know (a) Ocarina offer a “data reduction” appliance (b) an ocarina is a small oval, china flute. I say data reduction as the Ocarina appliance uses a [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided. As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Here are a few pictures from tonight’s dinner; some people turned up later than planned and joined in as they arrived. Congratulations to the restaurant staff who served them so quickly. Also congratulations to those who won prizes from Stephen’s cryptic competition. We’re expecting good things from Devang as he won again with video hardware. [...]
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