Posts Tagged ‘svc’

Enterprise Computing: VPLEX – Write Back or Write Through?

Enterprise Computing: VPLEX – Write Back or Write Through?
A little discussion on Twitter between myself, @BasRaayman, @UltraSub and @esignoretti got me thinking about the evolution of VPLEX and the whole caching thing.  It’s something I mentioned on one of my previous VPLEX posts and it could have significant impact on designing and implementing VPLEX...
May 18th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Storage Expo – It's All Over

So Storage Expo is over for another year.  As usual it was the mix of meeting old friends, finding out who had moved to work with who and working out how early to head out to the pub! For me, there were a number of interesting take aways: SVC 5.0 – lots of new stuff here that will form part...
October 20th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

Enterprise Computing: What Next For Virtualisation?

Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software.  With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?  I talked about...
September 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part V

This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies.  Previous posts: Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part II Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies Part III Enterprise Computing: Data Migration...
July 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Storage, GestaltIT | Read More

LUN Stacker

A recent post from Martin “The Bod” Glassborow got me thinking about the whole process of LUN consolidation. I’ve done lots of migrations where people quake at the thought of changing the LUN size from one array to another. Now, I almost always want to change LUN sizes, as the vendor...
November 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Get the Balance Right

It’s not very often I side with one vendor or another however after BarryB’s recent post regarding “Benchmarketing” I feel obliged to comment. Have a read of Barry Whyte’s rebuttal too. We see technology advancements because “concept” devices are used to drive...
October 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Replacing the Virtualisation Component – II

Thanks to Chuck who pointed out to me SVC’s ability to move virtual WWNs between nodes during replacement. At some stage in the future I may get to play with SVC but I haven’t so far, so this feature eluded me. Question: is SVC the *only* block virtualisation appliance to offer this functionality...
October 14th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

IBM's Storage Announcements

Today IBM made a slew of new product announcements. None of it was a surprise due to lots of pre-announcement leaks and the fact the IBM session in Montpelier was to a certain degree the formal announcement of products already mentioned in standard press releases. I can only describe the new product...
September 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Incipient Revisited

You will remember that I recently posted a comment about migration costs, specifically with relation to Incipient. My view was (and still is) that the majority of migration costs come from preparatory and remedial work rather than execution of the migration. Well, Incipient asked for the right of...
June 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

SAN Virtual Appliances

LeftHand, FalconStor, Arkeia and Datacore all now offer VMware appliance versions of their products. I’m in the process of downloading them now and I’m hoping to install over the next few days and do some testing. I’ve previously mentioned some VM NAS products which I’ve installed...
September 14th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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