VMworld 2011 – what a busy week
I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was! 20,000+ people in attendance! I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%.
Slimy marketing tactics are insulting
Isilon – makers of what look to be a very cool scale-out NAS solution just sent me an email. Now, I was expecting their email, so this isn’t an issue of spam at all (in fact, when they scanned my badge at VMware Forum I commented that I would be watching for their email, and to be honest, I said […]
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 […]
A storage cluster is born
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 […]