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...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, October 20, 2011 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech, SAN, FC |
Amazon Web Services architect James Hamilton has been posting on network issues for over a year and researching them much longer. As Ethernet becomes the de facto SAN technology, his views become more relevant to the larger storage market. Critique Part of Mr....
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 | Architecture, Clusters, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
Sometimes in the midst of the endless tweaking needed to maximize storage performance one just wants to say “screw it! Put everything in RAM!” And that’s just what RAMCloud does. Disk is the new tape, flash the new disk, DRAM the new flash. RAMCloud...
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