One of the hits from my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar this week was a discussion of the relative merits of different storage protocols. Sounds deadly, but this can be quite a religious issue for folks, and it generated lively debate. I’m firmly in the “do what works” camp – there is no always-right protocol, and […]
Enterprise storage
ZFS: Super File System!
ZFS really piques my interest, so I just had to include it in my TechTarget storage virtualization seminar series. Here’s a quick primer for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, and thus are wondering why anyone would get stoked over a filesystem! ZFS (originally “zettabyte file system” but now just ZFS) takes the […]
VMware Storage Tidbits
When researching the interaction of storage and VMware for my upcoming TechTarget seminar series on storage virtualization, I picked up a few little tidbits of information that I wanted to share… Beware of block sizes greater than 256 KB when using certain Fibre Channel arrays! VMware’s performance research shows that throughput drops on some FC […]
Volume Management: Virtualizing Host Storage
I’ve been feverishly preparing for my upcoming TechTarget seminar series focused on storage virtualization, so I thought it might be interesting to post a few topics from the talk here on the blog. If you’ll be in Washington DC on March 4, or Durham NC on March 6 and are interested in the world of […]
Apple Customers Vent Over Ex-Xserve RAID
Apple’s business customers do not appear amused at the company’s exit from the enterprise storage space, but it was the quiet way that the company dumped the Xserve RAID product from their lineup that really irked. “XRAID” customers were left wondering whether they made the right choice, and if the company’s support for the defunct […]
