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Virtualization in IT: Where is it Going?
on Dec 23, 2007 in server system administration VMware ESX Citrix Nework Appliance NetApp IT virtualization VDI hypervisor virtual technology XEN servers Five years ago virtualized architecture in an IT shop was “virtually” unheard of. Today, virtualization is the new buzzword. IT shops the world over are turning to virtualization to answer many of their needs for server consolidation, server dens...
NPIV Pitfalls
on Jan 9, 2008 in VMware Network Appliance NetApp NPIV Recently, I was tasked with setting up NPIV in our VMware environment. While at first I thought this would be a breeze, I would soon learn that anytime I think something is going to be easy, I should think again.My first challenge was, of course, th...
Of VMware and NetApp
on Jan 28, 2008 in RDM iSCSI VMware NFS Network Appliance NetApp CIFS snapdrive flexclone RAID-DP LUN snapshot The organization that I work for uses Network Appliance as our storage vendor. Boy do we use it! To a tune of over 170 terabytes of storage! For our size organization I truly marvel at that number and wonder where it all goes.That being said I truly...
SAN NAS iSCSI FCIP Product Reviews Best Solutions in the market you wanna read about it - seriously?
on Oct 2, 2008 in emc san product review hp interview nas product review dell storage network netapp product review network storage What is a Blog - A personal Journal (NOT TO BE TAKEN seriously) . I can blog about anything right. I started this blog to talk & talk only about technology - SAN fascinated me, NAS made me take notice, iSCSI & FCIP im still exploring. So how is that...
My first few days with ParaScale software
on Dec 7, 2008 in Creating a Cloud Architecture Cloud Storage EMC GUI Hardware hype linux management NetApp parascale performance RAID scalable Self-managing software storage pool Let me give you a 14 second background of myself, so that you’ll understand where I am coming from. Having worked with a previous NAS vendor that was selling a high performance box and competing directly with NetApp and EMC, we were having a to...