Quick notes on configuring LDAP in Fishworks, gleaned from my experience working with the VMware simulator:
As I noted in my “quick walk” post’s comments, I had difficulty getting LDAP working initially on my corporate Active Directory network. The crux for me turned out to be getting the LDAP Schema Definitions correct. Here are [...]
(In the spirit of Joerg Moellenkamp’s thought experiments:)
That virtualized Fishworks appliance got me thinking: What if you combined this with this? Yeah, managing Elastic Block Store devices would require some changes, but, if you needed a NAS for your EC2 instances…
A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Below is a quick walkthrough of my experience booting and installing the Fishworks VMware appliance; my thoughts follow.
With surprisingly little buzz (outside of sun.com) - must be that darned economy - Sun launched its new Fishworks product line yesterday: Three hardware products, several of them with flash drives, and an impressive looking user interface, which appears at first glace to surpass anything NetApp offers. Here’s a quick rundown of features from [...]
You know, when this feature isn’t experimental any more:
Now when did VMWare say that I’d be able to automatically Storage VMotion my VMs off those hot, power-sucking Fibre Channel drives to SATA drives so I can power down my first tier storage overnight again?
Scott Lowe recently linked to a VMware KB article entitled Storing swap files on VMFS when running virtual machines from NFS. The article (from 3/31/2008) is perhaps the latest word from VMware in the frustrating back-and-forth on whether placing an ESX VM’s swap on NFS is acceptable or not.
I’ve blogged before about the limits of NetApp’s A-SIS (Deduplication). In practical use, however, those limits can be even lower - here’s why:
Suppose, for example, that you have a FAS2050; the maximum size FlexVol that you can dedupe is 1 TB. If the volume has ever been larger than 1 TB and then [...]
We’re Never Content - Amazon announces a forthcoming CDN layered on top of S3 with “edge locations on three continents” - presumably North America, Europe and Asia - “in order to deliver your content from the most appropriate location.” Presumably Amazon is planning to use this in-house for their digital media sales, or possibly [...]
Timekeeping best practices for Linux - “This article presents best practices for Linux timekeeping. These recommendations include specifics on the particular kernel command line options to use for the Linux operating system of interest. There is also a description of the recommended settings and usage for NTP time sync, configuration of VMware Tools time synchronization, [...]
Your Usable Capacity May Vary - Chuck conducts a thought deployment comparing EMC, HP and NetApp usable space for a 120 disk Exchange deployment. And while he glosses over a couple perhaps non-minor issues (RAID-5 vs RAID-DP and whether EMC’s snapshots are adequately performant), he does hit one of NetApp’s weak spots dead on: [...]