Storage, storage STORAGE!

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 […]

Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud (updated)

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: […]

The new iPad hype

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 […]

Over Subscription vs Over Capacity – huh?

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 […]