October 30, 2012
VMware Path Masking
I’ve written posts in the past regarding LUN masking on a storage array, but it is possible to mask…
Category: Storage
September 16, 2012
Network RAID Penalty
I recently got my hands on a pair of HP P4300s in the lab and wanted to see how the…
September 10, 2012
HP Storage Comparisons (Sept. 2012)
I have been recently thrown into the world of HP Storage, and have been trying to learn all of the…
July 1, 2012
Netapp AggrSpaceCheck 2.0 needed
I was recently helping out a company attempt to upgrade their Netapp Filer from OnTap 7.3 over to Data OnTap…
May 1, 2012
Netapp VASA Provider 1.0
Netapp has released their vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provider 1.0 to their support site. http://support.netapp.com If you’re not that…
April 15, 2012
SQL HA Mirroring with vCenter
We’re probably all aware of the benefits of clustering things like SQL Server in order to provide highly available data.…
April 10, 2012
Netapp VSC4 Optimization and Migration
One of my most frequently read articles is on how to use MBRAlign to align your virtual machine disks on…
March 21, 2012
Understanding RAID Penalty
Determining which type of RAID to use when building a storage solution will largely depend on two things; capacity and…
March 12, 2012
Lun Masking vs Zoning
Zoning and Lun Masking are often confused for each other, probably because both of them are used to restrict access…
March 8, 2012
Path Selection Policy with ALUA
It’s important to understand how VMware ESXi servers handle connections to their associated storage arrays. If we look specifically with…