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Links, 8/30/2008: Usable space, licensing Windows, multiprotocol VMware storage

30-Aug-08

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: [...]

Large Link Dump, 7/16/2008

16-Jul-08

VM HA - service console networking, isolation behavior - and other “under the covers stuff” - An overview of how VMware ESX’s High Availability works under the hood - making it much more apparent to me how important file locking is to HA’s functioning. (I’d love to see an overview of how file locking [...]

Links, 6/23/2008

23-Jun-08

Blocks & Files: Now HP contributes HPC file system to open source - “HP has contributed its Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source community, meaning Linux.” It’s been a long time since I’ve used AdvFS (the last time I used Tru64 was in 2003 or so), but it [...]

What I Think You Ought to Read, 6/20/2008

20-Jun-08

Red Hat adopts KVM: what happens to Xen now? - I work in a VMware ESX shop right now (other than all those Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails and OpenVZ VEs, that is) - no Xen or KVM. However, given the serious pain in the butt that timekeeping is in Linux guests on ESX, [...]

Web Pages My Boss Should Read, 6/19/2008

19-Jun-08

HP servers to get flash memory I/O boost - It looks like SSDs will become a common option on server hardware; the real issue will be how to adapt your operating system/file system/application to use them optimally.
BlueArc’s Titanic benchmark holed - A storage vendor using a non-real-world configuration to optimize benchmark results? Really? [...]