Posts Tagged ‘Virtualisation’

Enterprise Computing: Why Federation Is What We Need

Enterprise Computing: Why Federation Is What We Need
You may have assumed from my previous post on VPLEX that I am negative towards the concept of storage federation.  That couldn’t be further from the truth.  In fact, ever since I was involved in deploying ESX onto enterprise storage infrastructure (some 4 years ago), I’ve been waiting...
May 13th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation
I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening.  For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food.  Now free beer is good, however I’m...
March 15th, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More

Virtualisation: Virtualising MY SOHO Infrastructure

I’m in the process of migrating my existing physical infrastructure into a virtual environment. There’s nothing like “eating your own dog food” (there’s got to be a better expression than that) for testing out your beliefs on how technology should be implemented, so it’s...
December 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 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: HDS Switches On Virtualisation For Free

There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product.  I’ve used it many times – it does the job.  However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago on this...
April 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Using USP for Migrations

Thanks to Hu Yoshida for the reference to a previous post of mine which mentioned using virtualisation (USP, SVC, take your pick) for performing data migrations. As Hu rightly points out, the USP, USP-V, NSC55 and USP-VM can all be used to virtualise other arrays and migrate data into the USP as part...
January 24th, 2009 | 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

Virtualisation Update

Thanks to everyone who commented on the previous post relating to using virtualisation for DR. I’m looking forward to Barry’s more contemporaneous explanation of the way SVC works. I guess I should have said I understand Invista is stateless – but I didn’t – so thank’s...
September 7th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Using Virtualisation for DR

It’s good to see virtualisation and the various products being discussed again at length. Here’s an idea I had some time ago for implementing remote replication by using virtualisation. I’d be interested to know whether it is possible (so far no-one from HDS can answer the question...
September 7th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Invista

There’s been a few references to Invista over the last couple of weeks, notably from Barry discussing the “stealth announcement”. I commented on Barry’s blog that I felt Invista had been a failure, due to the number of sales. I’m not quite sure why this is so, as I think...
September 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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