Posts Tagged ‘ix4-200d’

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.  Here’s what...
January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Review: DroboPro – Part II

Review: DroboPro – Part II
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the DroboPro from Data Robotics Inc.  Previous post(s): Review: DroboPro – Part I Previously I discussed a few frustrations with connecting my new DroboPro to ESXi, the target environment for my new device.  I’ve now managed to get the...
December 7th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is iSCSI The New Home Protocol?

I’d like to think I’ve visited a lot of customer sites over the years.  Admittedly most of these are “enterprise” class with multi-terabyte if not petabyte quantities of storage.  None of those customers have ever bothered deploying iSCSI as their storage protocol.  Invariably...
November 26th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

Personal Computing: Drobo Weirdness

Hmm, I’ve found a small bug with my Drobo which is making me slightly nervous.  Have a look at the first graphic.  I’ve exceeded a single 2TB logical drive in terms of capacity (as I now have two 2TB and two 1TB physical drives installed).  In this instance the Drobo has created me...
October 19th, 2009 | Personal Computing | Read More