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 [...]
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 [...]
Amazon’s much-awaited Elastic Block Store for EC2 is out this morning; I’m excited to give this a try. A couple downers from the announcement: The pricing is somewhat high - $0.10 per allocated GB per month plus $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests - and the reliability isn’t where I’d like it to be. [...]
It’s been a while since I posted about my unhappiness with NetApp’s FAS2020. And while we’ve replaced our 2020 with a 2050, I still get a lot of traffic to those pages, and a few emailed questions from prospective or new 2020 owners asking about the so-called 8TB limit. Here’s a summary of [...]
Chuck’s got another, uh, thought-provoking blog post up, More Examples Of Why Server Vendors Just Don’t Get Storage, surely intended to ruffle a few feathers. And he does raise some really good points: Most server vendors need more of an SSD strategy than just making a flash drive an option (it’s how you use [...]
There’s been a lot of noise from the storage industry about flash recently - in particular, noise from EMC and Sun, both of whom recently announced storage products using flash, EMC in January and Sun earlier this month. Below are my thoughts on what EMC and Sun are doing, as well as what NetApp [...]
Chuck’s Blog: Vendor Differentiation Through Thought Leadership - (Yeah, that title made me gag, too.) Excerpt: “Sun came out loud and strong recently with characteristic unbridled enthusiasm. But, in classic Sun fashion, they missed the point entirely. It’s not just the flash drives (they’re just components, right?) it’s what you can do with them [...]