Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 07. Jan, 2010 | View Comments
“Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel” might sound like another “blah blah” marketing piece, but a little birdy tells me that this webcast will drop a bombshell about iSCSI performance.
10 GbE, iSCSI, FCoE, Microsoft, and the Future
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT on 11. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
Last year, we were all wondering when the 10 GbE wave would hit and what impact it would have. That’s not worth pondering anymore. It’s not just the year of 10 GbE; 10-gig is the future of connectivity, and the future is here.
10 Cool Storage Features From the 2009 Microsoft MVP Summit
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
Note: Every one of these items has previously been discussed by Microsoft. I can’t yet talk about any other storage features I might have seen…
iSCSI Quick Connect – No more fumbling through tabs and popups, just enter an IP address and you’re connected! Yeah, baby!
Wire-speed 10 Gb iSCSI – The software iSCSI initiator can saturate a [...]
Who Will Capture the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Crown?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 19. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Today, Brocade announced that it has completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks. This is just the latest move in the strategic game to control the next generation of Ethernet, and possibly all local connectivity, including storage. Although 1 Gb Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gb Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand are all still going strong, the attention of the industry, [...]
Storage Folks Are Talking 10-Gig and FCoE
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 21. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
I continue to be amazed by the level of interest I’m seeing in Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 10 Gb Converged Ethernet among storage people. As I noted after my Charlotte virtualization seminar, end users at the largest enterprises seem to think that FCoE is their future, not just one of several options.
But when [...]
Reality Check: The FCoE Forecast
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 19. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
There has been a lot of discussion in the storage industry about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), making it the toast of Storage Networking World, but this technology remains relatively unknown to [...]
A Consultant’s View Of The Enterprise Storage Market
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 21. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
This is part of an ongoing series of longer articles I will be posting every Sunday as part of an experiment in offering more in-depth content.
I am not the typical enterprise storage user. In fact, I am not an enterprise storage user at all – I am a consultant focused for over a decade on [...]
QLogic and Emulex Deliver 8 Gb Fibre Channel For VMware ESX
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 30. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
As I mentioned on Monday, VMware’s Update 2 for ESX 3.5 includes support for 8 Gb Fibre Channel HBAs. This is an important development, so I went looking through the official ESX I/O Compatibility Guide to see which HBAs in particular were supported, but none were listed.
This was pretty puzzling, but Rich from VM /ETC and [...]
Storage Fixes in VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 2
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 28. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
VMware just released Update 2 for VMware ESX Server 3.5 (Virtual Infrastructure), and it includes some storage fixes of note:
Support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) for filesystems Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 guests. This means VMware services like VCB and SRM can now signal Windows Server to quiesce filesystems before creating a clone [...]
Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage on 23. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Beth Pariseau over at SearchStorage.com has another great interview, this time with “Mr. SCSI”, Larry Boucher of Alacritech. Despite being early to market with TCP offload engine (TOE) Ethernet NICs, and iSCSI HBAs in particular, the company has been less successful than many would have expected. This is probably because most folks just [...]
