Searching for storage: Tegile
Blog post about Tegile’s Zebi storage appliance, a storage vendor I learned about from a friend in the IT field working in education.
I’m very glad I followed up on the suggestion.
Blog post about Tegile’s Zebi storage appliance, a storage vendor I learned about from a friend in the IT field working in education.
I’m very glad I followed up on the suggestion.
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources. Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight. Digging through dead server storage(tm) I have found a […]
It has been 17 months since I deployed the Nexenta cluster for our VMware hosting platform at ipHouse. Unfortunately this post will not be positive.
SInce last month, our Nexenta based storage cluster has been deployed and I have now moved production data onto it. A bump and bruise occurred last weekend (I had done an announcement already) and yesterday things burped again. The problem? Looks like an issue with the 2 mirrored boot drives of the first head unit (each head manages its own […]
It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need for this project, and just […]
Earlier today we announced the changes to our data center – you can read about that here. Now we are getting some feedback: How did you do it? Why did you do it? Why not shag? Those purple stripes clash with my servers, wtf? So, onward we go, with help from an office mate who wishes to remain anonymous; let’s […]
Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for the basic configuration. Reminder graphic: […]
What’s the issue really? Oh noes, no camera? That’ll change I bet. No flash? Win in my book! No multitasking? Really, you wanna run more things, buy a computer. Now, the speculation about version 2 makes me laugh, but really, aren’t we at version 3? In my office common area, I have version 1, and I’ll include a picture. Back […]
Recently, a whole slew of tweets showed up across my feed dealing with the perceived and measured issues across multiple public cloud providers infrastructure. One of the posts comes from Chris Hoff (this post in particular) that describes quite clearly what the differences are. Service providers (anyone doing cloud services, virtualization, colocation, bandwidth, whatever) live upon the idea of over subscription. We […]