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 […]
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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 […]
Go Outside NOW! Look Up! It’s a Total Lunar Eclipse!
There is a total lunar eclipse beginning right now, viewable across the United States and Europe! The moon will be fully eclipsed an hour and 15 minutes from now, midnight my time. So go outside and look up!
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 […]
I Want a Real Blog Aggregator
I love Google Reader. I love Friendfeed. I even like Plaxo Pulse. But here’s what I want: A one-stop blog aggregator that lets me do everything for everywhere in one place. I want integrated socialization, and especially threading and integrated commenting. And I think we can do it! Read on for a recipe for the […]
