Storage
Storage infrastructure in IT refers to the overall set of hardware and software components needed to facilitate storage for a system.
Different Data, New Challenges
There are three different categories that can be used to categorize data:
Structured Data is normally organized into rows and columns. The most popular [...]
How to get performance data from a First Generation VNXe
How to get performance data from a First Generation VNXe (VNXe3100, VNXe 3150, or VNXe3300)
You will need the SPCollects from the VNXe (Instructions here). [...]
VNX OE for Block 05.33.006.5.096 (Salmon River)
VNX OE for Block 05.33.006.5.096 (Salmon River) was just released with some major improvements to the VNX2. I have laid out some notes from the announcement [...]
VNXe 3.1.1 software update: KittyHawk+
The VNXe3200 is finally getting some much needed enhancements. On January 27th, EMC will put out the latest 3.1.1 code update for the VNXe. Here are some of [...]
IBM Storwize V7000 vs EMC VNX5400
I have seen a lot of debate lately over which big blue storage vender puts out a better box, IBM or EMC. I am definitely a huge EMC fan and felt compelled to [...]
How well do virtual environments really dedupe?
With the advent of Flash Storage, the new buzz term is "deduplication". This is the best way to fit a large amount of VM data in a very small capacity flash [...]