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 [...]
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.
So I returned from a little five-day weekend to sunny Lake Chelan and the Columbia River to an RSS reader bursting at the seams with new posts. By far the best post was one later deleted:
Amazon Elastic Block Store goes live! (Yeah, that link’s dead - like I said, it was later deleted.) [...]
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 [...]
Elektronkind: OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - A look at upcoming storage technologies in OpenSolaris 2008.11, including ZFS, iSCSI, NDMP, COMSTAR, AVS and SAM-QFS. These products really set OpenSolaris apart from Linux distributions, although I wonder how official this list is, and have some doubts about the status of some [...]
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 [...]
NetApp Litigation - an update: Sun’s take on the NetApp/Sun lawsuit proceedings. “Over the last two months, the PTO has granted the first five of our reexamination requests, finding in all the cases that multiple ‘SNQP’ [substantial new question of patentability] exist for each patent (one request filed in June is still pending). These [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]