Shared Nothing Live Migration White Board Time – Scenario I
The Problem Let’s say you are very happy with your SAN. You just love the snapshots, the thin provisioning, deduplication, automatic storage tiering, replication, ODX and the SMI-S support. Live is...
View ArticleDisk to Disk Backup Solution with Windows Server 2012 – Part I
Backing Up 100 Plus Terabyte of Data Cheaply When dealing with large amounts of data to backup you’re going to start bleeding money. Sure people will try to sell you great solutions with deduplication,...
View ArticleTechEd 2013 Revelations for Storage Vendors as the Future of Storage lies...
Imagine you’re a storage vendor until a few years ago. Racking in the big money with profit margins unseen by any other hardware in the past decade and living it up in dreams along the Las Vegas...
View ArticleDELL PowerEdge VRTX Has Potential Beyond ROBO As a Scale Out File Server...
The PowerEdge VRTX I went to have a chat with Dell at TechEd 2013 Europe in Madrid. The VRTX was launched during DELL Enterprise Forum early June 2013 this concept packs a punch and I encourage you to...
View ArticleStorage Spaces, Hyper-V VM Mobility & 10Gbps are Key Elements
At TechEd 2103 Europe I met some passionate people who’ve been working hard at deploying Storage Spaces on a large scale in their companies (many hundreds of TB). They have replaced their expensive...
View ArticleFuture Proofing Storage Acquisitions Without A Crystal Ball
Dealing with an unknown future without a crystal ball I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 (R2) is are the first steps of MSFT to really make a difference...
View ArticleThe Hyper V Amigos Showcast Episode 6: Storage Spaces
Everybody is very busy and I’m a bit tires but here’s the 6th episode of the Hyper-V Amigos show cast. In this episode we get to play a bit with storage spaces in Carsten’s lab. As always we had a lot...
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