by Robin Harris | Monday, November 7, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, SAN, FC |
Reader Kyle asks a good question: SANs are advertised up the wazoo as having lots of internal redundancy such as redundant power, redundant controllers, etc. I’ve spent enough time with redundancy to know that having two pieces of hardware often doesn’t...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 1, 2011 | Off-Topic |
It was almost 4 years ago that IBM bought XIV (See 2008: cluster storage goes mainstream). StorageMojo couldn’t understand IBM’s product positioning – yeah, the world was clamoring for a block device for multi-media – but liked the...
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