Apparently, disk arrays are sensitive sorts that respond poorly when yelled at:
Makes me wonder how much engineering that I never thought about goes into designing disk shelves to keep drives insulated from vibrations. The Fishworks analytics interface is dazzling - wish I had that yesterday when I was looking at a possible Exchange I/O [...]
I was checking out VMware’s new online search-able HCL and I noticed that the new Sun Unified Storage Systems were on the HCL. That was fast - and now I’m really curious as to how the systems with flash drives perform as storage for ESX.
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 [...]
Flash Forward - Jay Kidd, CTO of NetApp blogs that “NetApp is in the process of certifying enterprise-grade SSDs that you can use in our existing storage shelves.” No dates or pricing announced yet, of course, but he does make an excellent point about SSDs in storage arrays: “For the next few years, you [...]
There’s nothing like a long summer weekend followed by an on-site consultant to keep you from updating your blog. But on the bright side, I didn’t have to link to the notebook SSDs are dead - no they’re not kerfluffle.
NetApp finds NAS could mean ‘never accessed storage’ - “According to a USENIX presentation, 90% [...]
The Hitz report - Robin Harris at StorageMojo on the Sun-NetApp lawsuit:
NetApp’s biggest misperception is that WAFL is somehow central to the success they are enjoying today. That was true about 10 years ago. Guys, your average F500 CIO today could care less about WAFL.
NetApp is growing because they offer a compelling value proposition of [...]