tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66501155057318701562024-03-05T19:40:39.219-06:00Virtual OpticsVirtual Optics: The vision to curve the effect of virtualismAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-83001533662891708742013-02-19T23:09:00.000-06:002013-02-19T23:38:07.426-06:00Netapp FlashRay! 100% SSD Storage Appliances.<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></i>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">The EF540 SAN solution builds on it's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">SANtricity® operating system that was purchased from </span><a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/press-releases/news-rel-20110509-263500.aspx">Engenio/LSI</a> in 2011. "The EF540 is said to achieve 300,000 IOPS and the transactional performance of 1000 15K drives"<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The more interesting announcement almost appeared as "by the way" statement in </span>today's<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/library/videos.aspx?videoId=2168200071001">Flash product announcement.</a> You have to play the the announcement several times to actually hear the word "FlashRay".</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/netapp_flashray/">FlashRay shines out from Sunnyvale</a><br />
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2013/02/19/how-netapp-flashray-will-disrupt-enterprise-storage-with-low-cost-flash-memory/">How NetApp FlashRay Will Disrupt Enterprise Storage</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-48584670377086421152011-05-03T14:54:00.001-05:002011-05-04T07:11:18.864-05:00End of the Corporate Datacenter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/ms-azure-intro.png?tag=mantle_skin;content" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div><a href="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/ms-azure-intro.png?tag=mantle_skin;content" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/ms-azure-intro.png?tag=mantle_skin;content" width="320" /></a>Networking, Storage, Servers, Power, Cooling, Datacenter buildings and people which are a significant cost to businesses will been eliminated in the very near future. Services such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Services_Platform">Windows Azure Platform</a> will used to build, host and s<span style="font-size: large;">ca</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">lE</span> applications in cloud datacenters. This service real and available today and while it might take a few years for adoption, the Corporate Datacenter will soon collapse into the cloud. It's time now to re-focus the resume on providing cloud solutions, because the days of providing datacenter solutions have ended.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-36290880712492301912011-03-02T20:09:00.001-06:002011-03-02T20:19:06.325-06:00Nasuni Cloud File ServerFinally something interesting and real in Storage...<br />
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Cloud is HOT this year and <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/">Nasuni</a> is my first look into cloud storage. Nasuni is a virtual NAS appliance that has some amount of local storage. The Nasuni appliance sits on <u>your</u> local network and serves CIFS and NFS to <u>your</u> users on the front end, and then snapshots the data to one or more <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/product/cloud-providers/">Cloud Storage providers</a> of your choice. Cloud providers currently include <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/amazon-web-services/" title="Amazon Web Services">Amazon Web Services</a>, <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/att-synaptic-storage/">AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service℠</a>, <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/nirvanix/" title="Nirvanix">Nirvanix,</a> <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/peer1/" title="Peer1">Peer 1 Hosting</a>, <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/rackspace/" title="Rackspace Cloud">Rackspace</a>, and <a href="http://www.nasuni.com/about-nasuni/partners/windows-azure/" title="Windows Azure">Windows Azure</a><br />
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Literally within 10 minutes, I download the ESX VM, started it and had my first cloud share up and running. Started copying images, videos, etc and sharing them to other to test... Fast and flawless.<br />
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Nasuni setup was by far they easiest appliance I have ever setup, and when you turn on, it's just on. No boot up, just on!<br />
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<a href="http://www.nasuni.com/">Nasuni</a> really isn't Cloud Storage, it more of a Cloud Storage Gateway. It's a generic way to setup Cloud Storage to any number of current (an future) Cloud Storage providers. Yes it does CIFS and NFS and stores data on local disk just like all NAS filers, however the main feature is the snapshots to the "Cloud".<br />
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How is works is simple; Data is written locally to the appliance, and at set increments, snapsnots of the data are taken and the delta (change blocks) are sent to the cloud. Recovery from any point in time snapshot is also possible... Delete a file, no problem... Go recover it from the snapshot!<br />
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I've only had a few hours with this product, and I see lot's of potential here and still lots of questions. <br />
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Netapp better incorporate this technology into Ontap fast, or it's going to see some market share loss to this new idea on providing NAS.<br />
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Look for updates to the blog as soon as I have a better feel for it...<br />
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Basically ONTAP-v will be a virtual machine and will use virtual disk to serve (via iscsi/NFS?) other VMs in local and remote VSAs. Add some additional SAS shelves and you could in theory handle 1000's of VMs all replicated and backed up via snapshots/mirrors on remote VSAs... <br />
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A truely converged datacenter in a box or at least a small puff of a cloud starting for form.<br />
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This is one to keep a close eye on...<br />
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<em>On November 24th Fujitsu </em><a href="http://fujitsunews.com/2010/11/fujitsu-primergy-bx400-opens-up-blade-computing-for-midsize-companies/" target="_blank"><em>announced</em></a><em> the global availability of the </em><a href="http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/blade/bx400" target="_blank"><em>Primergy BX400 blade server</em></a><em>. The Primergy BX400 is a green ‘datacenter in a box’ that delivers the first NetApp virtual storage appliance (or VSA) running Data ONTAP-v.</em><br />
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<em>Reuters reported that EMC Corporation is in talks to buy computer storage company Isilon Systems Inc for more than $2 billion, the New York Post reported on Monday. The report quoted an unnamed source as saying the deal would be done this year.</em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-67174243990651040662010-08-31T22:08:00.000-05:002010-08-31T22:08:27.985-05:00HP ReRAM Flash and Disk Replacement?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Memristor.jpg/225px-Memristor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" ox="true" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9f/Memristor.jpg/225px-Memristor.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Today, <a href="http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Data-Central/HP-and-Hynix-Bringing-the-memristor-to-market-in-next-generation/ba-p/82218">HP announced </a>a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor Inc., to develop a new kind of computer memory – one that will employ memristor technology pioneered by researchers at HP Labs.<br />
This memory, called ReRAM, holds the potential to surpass Flash in terms of affordability, total capacity, speed, energy efficiency, and endurance.<br />
Previous to the prediction of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor">memristor</a> by Prof. Leon Chua of UC Berkeley in 1971, there were three recognized passive circuit elements: the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. These three passive elements have provided the fundamental building blocks on which all electronic circuits today are based.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-47802678148113344302010-08-31T21:38:00.000-05:002010-08-31T21:38:58.792-05:00Symantec Puredisk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://asp.uditis.ch/upload/cardlead/UDITIS/attach/20090710152913_CARDLEAD_http___eval_symantec_com_mktginfo_enterprise_white_papers_b-whitepaper_esg_lab_validation_symc_puredisk_06-2008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" ox="true" src="http://asp.uditis.ch/upload/cardlead/UDITIS/attach/20090710152913_CARDLEAD_http___eval_symantec_com_mktginfo_enterprise_white_papers_b-whitepaper_esg_lab_validation_symc_puredisk_06-2008.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Shadowed by their competitors, <a href="http://www.symantec.com/business/netbackup-puredisk">Symantec Puredisk</a> solution is starting to turn heads. Well at least mine... Puredisk is now completely integrated into Netbackup 7, which means that a 3rd party solution or separate install is not required for backup deduplication. Out of the box, Puredisk is available to use at the switch of a license key. <br />
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Puredisk deduplication can be accomplished at the <strong>client</strong>, or at the media server and can be switched via netback policy. As a bonus, the puredisk pool can be replicated to a second pool incrementally and the netbackup catalog kept sync automagically.<br />
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Some amount duplication occurs on the initial backup depending on your data, but Puredisk shines on the next backup deduplicating all unchanged blocks. Nothing like seeing a 99% deduplication rate!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-69850215357645375172010-08-19T15:01:00.005-05:002010-08-19T15:14:13.145-05:00Intel to buy Mcafee, why? SSD data compression maybe?<img src="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/images/_25nm_TLC_Die.jpg" /><br />
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I can't see why Intel would want bloatware like Mcafee other than to keep the CPUs hot...<br />
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Now if Mcafee had some type of pattern matching IP that allowed Intel SSDs to incorporate some type of de-duplication... Now that could be huge and finally allow SSDs to surpass their hard drive counterparts.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-42959541193558442882009-09-22T20:35:00.018-05:002009-09-22T22:21:11.405-05:00The Virtual Datacenter; 500 VMs in 10U?Now why can't someone build a 6-Tbyte and 2-Gbyte/sec SSD array as a blade addon? <br /><br />A 14 blade nahalem CPU system and (2) 6TB storage blades would make an awesome all in one Vmware in a 10U box system! <br /><br />No Nework, No SAN, and high IO!<br /><br />I'de buy 5 of these tomorrow!<br /><br />Didn't GATES and DELL get their start by providing a simple solution in their garage?<br /><br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/96dWOEa4Djs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://viroptics.pancamo.com/2009/01/sandisk-m2-2tb-memory-stick-60mbs.html"></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-63387413051279185832009-01-13T13:02:00.007-06:002009-08-28T21:06:06.871-05:00Sandisk M2 2TB Memory Stick @60MB/s<img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 297px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290855971785324034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDtKzofMJx0J4H7S_PRYBWvCX_y1XIu2vplKQwokck-Hkrvxj0DmORnx-2stmEYWXNDrOyw7ZjR8RKUAY8AYtBCTE-znJhyOImuzPmd_wqUNcdpNVlT2rG8Y40iINqD31nzsvL2H75MX3/s400/sandisk-memory-stick_1231814435.jpg" /><br />8/3/2009 UPDATED SPECS: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/sony-announces-specs-for-2tb-memory-stick-xc/">Memory Stick XC</a><br /><br />It's been awhile since my last posting here mainly due to lack of any interesting storage news. Well this came across my RSS this morning.<br /><br />Starting in 2009, Sony and Sandisk will make a giant leap in storage capacity for the Memory Stick memory card.<br /><br />"Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity (Tentative name)" expands the "Memory Stick PRO" format series to achieve a maximum storage capacity of 2-terabytes (TB), with a maximum data-transfer speed of 60 megabytes per second (MB/s)<br /><br /><br />The SSD ERA lasted.... about 12 months!<br /><br />Game Changer!<br /><br />dpAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-12468091988643478952008-10-14T20:59:00.005-05:002008-10-22T00:19:12.970-05:00Storage Networking World 2008 Dallas News<a href="http://www.snwusa.com/images/GaylordTexan.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.snwusa.com/images/GaylordTexan.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.infostor.com/article_display/snw-product_highlights/8368654827/s-articles/s-infostor/s-top-news/s-1.html">SNW product highlights, Day 1</a> <div><a href="http://www.infostor.com/article_display/snw-product_highlights0/8447337680/s-articles/s-infostor/s-top-news/s-1.html">SNW product highlights, Day 2</a></div><div><a href="http://www.infostor.com/article_display/snw-product_highlights1/3548862807/s-articles/s-infostor/s-top-news/s-1.html">SNW product highlights, Day 3</a></div><div><a href="http://www.infostor.com/article_display/snw-product_highlights2/3035471262/s-articles/s-infostor/s-top-news/s-1.html">SNW product highlights, Day 4</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-51484504686833270262008-09-19T11:25:00.004-05:002008-09-19T11:38:35.744-05:00Vmware Datacenter OS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXwrJwQDSghEOopCWtsFqxy0bVD1k9DOnGVlGlMt-S2rK_ojbRm7CLVyAEFY0XAjk3kOY4KrWHmk7F93pWuqpfjORmdnwr6XCRcFcSae5xJz6wpbCBqt7Ujs1Z9-AxKRCkuaFs5LWkfN8/s1600-h/cloud_diagram_510x272.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247769977784798866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXwrJwQDSghEOopCWtsFqxy0bVD1k9DOnGVlGlMt-S2rK_ojbRm7CLVyAEFY0XAjk3kOY4KrWHmk7F93pWuqpfjORmdnwr6XCRcFcSae5xJz6wpbCBqt7Ujs1Z9-AxKRCkuaFs5LWkfN8/s400/cloud_diagram_510x272.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Vmware 2008; VMware has extended Virtual Infrastructure into a <a href="http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/">Virtual Datacenter Operating System</a></div><div></div><div><blockquote>The virtual datacenter OS addresses customers’ needs for flexibility, speed, resiliency and efficiency by transforming the datacenter into an “internal cloud” – an elastic, shared, self- managing and self-healing utility that can federate with external clouds of computing capacity freeing IT from the constraints of static hardware-mapped applications.</blockquote></div><br /><br />VmDOS (<em><span style="font-size:78%;">Back to DOS days</span></em>) delivers the virtual datacenter OS through the following essential components:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/application.html">Application vServices</a> guarantee the appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.<br /><a href="http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/infrastructure.html">Infrastructure vServices</a> subtract, aggregate and allocate on-premise servers, storage and network for maximum infrastructure efficiency.<br /><a href="http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/cloud-vservices/">Cloud vServices</a> federate the on-premise infrastructure with third party cloud infrastructure.<br /><a href="http://www.vmware.com/technology/virtual-datacenter-os/simplified_management.html">Management vServices</a> allow you to proactively manage the virtual datacenter OS and the applications running on it.<br /><br /><br />All I can say is WOW!!!<br /><br />Welcome to the <a href="http://www.virtualization.info/2008/06/vmware-prepares-to-enter-cloud.html">Cloud Computing</a> ERA!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-64109462025897179202008-07-30T14:50:00.002-05:002008-12-11T07:12:29.240-06:00ESXi FREE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU5oqzPkZpEU0r9Npl6SiCAS6QPB2xynUSyjKTaIxOnu8s3Ck-vCS6vO_NbZVz3V7L6d2TH3lwPR8biFkf6ltPzLGT85DQWTKcqF3wJbvrmXqntp0N36Bqj3aKYtFY2z5mAryX3IJpGpK/s1600-h/hero_esxi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228897229469896434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU5oqzPkZpEU0r9Npl6SiCAS6QPB2xynUSyjKTaIxOnu8s3Ck-vCS6vO_NbZVz3V7L6d2TH3lwPR8biFkf6ltPzLGT85DQWTKcqF3wJbvrmXqntp0N36Bqj3aKYtFY2z5mAryX3IJpGpK/s400/hero_esxi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>You’ll still need VirtualCenter and VI3 Enterprise licenses for all the cool enterprise-level features like VMotion, DRS, HA, SRM. </div><div> </div><div>ESXi can either be installed or run from an embedded device available in certain servers. </div><div> </div><div>The 32MB footprint gives small businesses an easy way to get into the virtualization world with easy upgrade paths to enterprise-level features.</div><div> </div><div>Great call by someone at Vmware! </div><div> </div><div>Now with all the virtualization going on these days, it's becomming harder to find a spare "real" server to try out ESXi on :(</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-83424026729698327032008-06-04T23:26:00.005-05:002008-12-11T07:12:29.485-06:00NetApp 2007 NetApp Innovation Awards Honors Dan Pancamo and Marcus Bui<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhERPm7oSMcBHdAbcVS0eO-1zIDuO-FXIhCtXMlb-6Agq_Idv8pYVempVL45b6ItI3GJxFbpd6EA4jDRasaNIL7-AIXDvQE74BXnI8OKu8HbWiBH7mSvX-pYUX9JQmUPUYG4ZY6zUnVEnzJ/s1600-h/innovation-award-2007.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208250099938597698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhERPm7oSMcBHdAbcVS0eO-1zIDuO-FXIhCtXMlb-6Agq_Idv8pYVempVL45b6ItI3GJxFbpd6EA4jDRasaNIL7-AIXDvQE74BXnI8OKu8HbWiBH7mSvX-pYUX9JQmUPUYG4ZY6zUnVEnzJ/s400/innovation-award-2007.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Myself and Marcus Bui are the proud recipients of the 2007 <a href="http://www.netapp.com/us/company/our-story/innovation-awards/category.html">Netapp Enterprise Infrastructure Innovation award</a>! <br /><br />In August 2006 we convinced our Vmware teams to switch from a SAN Vmware environment to a Netapp NFS Vmware environment as we quickly realized the potential value that Netapp could play in a Vmware environment. <br /><br />I truly believe that even Netapp didn't even see their potential role until we proved the value of Netapp's snapshot and replication technology in a vmware environment. Today we run over 1000 VMs on 35 ESX host in two locations all using Netapp filers over NFS. <br /><br /><br /><br />The NetApp Innovation Awards recognize NetApp customers who have helped their companies, customers, or communities through innovative deployment of NetApp products and solutions.<br /><br />The Enterprise Infrastructure award distinguishes customers worldwide who have deployed NetApp systems to power data center, workgroup, department, collaborative, or HPC applications that are specifically not Oracle, SAP, SQL Server, or Exchange and who demonstrate innovation with NetApp products. This year’s winner was Invesco, a leading independent global investment management company. By delivering the combined power of its distinctive worldwide investment management capabilities, including AIM, Atlantic Trust, Invesco, Perpetual, PowerShares, Trimark, and WL Ross, Invesco provides a comprehensive array of enduring investment solutions for retail, institutional, and private wealth management clients around the world. Activision, a leading international publisher of interactive entertainment software products, and Reliance Communications Limited, which is rated among “Asia's Top 5 Most Valuable Telecom Companies” and is India's foremost and truly integrated telecommunications service provider, were finalists.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-14768216458322974962008-05-06T22:31:00.003-05:002008-12-11T07:12:29.770-06:00HP Single Filesystem Cluster ExDS9100<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrd4UHn_QwZn4xgylncgS2zXcaOHG-tiHepw0a7vpaFU1zlFmxQYqT1WtqWc9nPW_gd-XJw8KxPcX-a2VCUy_yTLwlBz3jRcRq0yG7zGG1CuACK7gE_C2AzrQdItxXpkK7GHetepsKNex/s1600-h/b1_storage_image_extreme.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197479846120698130" style="FLOAT: center; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrd4UHn_QwZn4xgylncgS2zXcaOHG-tiHepw0a7vpaFU1zlFmxQYqT1WtqWc9nPW_gd-XJw8KxPcX-a2VCUy_yTLwlBz3jRcRq0yG7zGG1CuACK7gE_C2AzrQdItxXpkK7GHetepsKNex/s400/b1_storage_image_extreme.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p>HP anounces a highly scalable storage system named <a href="http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/592778-0-0-225-121.html?jumpid=ex_r2880_go/extremestorage">ExDS9100</a> (Extreme Data Storage System). ExDS9100 can scale to 246 petabytes using HP’s C-Class 16 Blades 12.8 cores per unit for an 3.2 GB/second of raw performance all managed with a single management interface. </p><br /><p>HP's <a href="http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/polyserve/support/hp_polyserve.html">PolyServe</a> software (<a href="http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=118198" target="new">acquired</a> in February 2007) is at the heart of the single filesystem.</p><br /><p>HP predicts it will cost less than US$2 per gigabyte in a typical configuration.</p><br /><div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-35161670203857035612008-04-09T19:17:00.009-05:002008-12-11T07:12:29.975-06:00Storage Networking World 2008 Highlights<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9yVLjtTnncsaYOWYrSJJD1WkUoiKxR5ZfWCEiMoUJ3-YJlxsiEVTpgaOC3lLp0NaT_KQe25-2FKmXGrv4whJc94BEKsU6AuNm2oxY7stLekBd9NGbtx2lJWdv5euew_h7gqqui10R3n4/s1600-h/hotel.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187409078097659890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq9yVLjtTnncsaYOWYrSJJD1WkUoiKxR5ZfWCEiMoUJ3-YJlxsiEVTpgaOC3lLp0NaT_KQe25-2FKmXGrv4whJc94BEKsU6AuNm2oxY7stLekBd9NGbtx2lJWdv5euew_h7gqqui10R3n4/s400/hotel.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.snwusa.com/index.html">Storage Networking World </a>April 7-10, 2008 at <a href="http://www.shinglecreekresort.com/">Rosen Shingle Creek Resort </a>in Orlando, Florida - the world's largest and foremost storage networking event - is where IT management and professionals learn, network and maximize their company's storage capabilities</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=150703&WT.svl=wire1_1">Broadcom Demos 10-Gig iSCSI/TCPIP HCA</a> Broadcom iSCSI HBA functionality enables on-chip processing of the iSCSI as well as TCP and IP protocols, which frees up host CPU resources at 10 Gbps line rates and enables an impressive 400,000 IOPS </div><br /><div><a href="http://www.dciginc.com/redirect.php?site=http://www.xiotech.com/Products-and-Services_ISE.aspx">Xiotech announced intelligent Storage Element (ISE) </a>"virtually eliminate the need for service, scale from one terabyte to one petabyte and dramatically boost performance".</div><br /><div><a href="http://www.mellanox.com/news/press_releases/pr_040708_3.php">Mellanox accounced 10Gbit FCoE CNA w/Host Offload</a> ConnectX EN Dual-Port 10GigE Single-Chip Adapter with FCoE Enables LAN and FC SAN Consolidation over Ethernet Networks.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>More to come...</div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><blockquote></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-40442741074453331392008-03-08T07:05:00.012-06:002008-12-11T07:12:30.557-06:00Intel 10Gbit Nic with VMDq doubles Vmware IO performance<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqqtl_6YX_69Wn7mZCsLczbmguEKiMGjyw_iS_tgp4QMByWqT2WpthV7GKAfRgdgTBSkwFX0-Xjk0A_vgaNja65HtTRRnPfeAwbxuNOUzpPOsdlHQgJKGcXsY-mWOuDsliJl1K3mMAKag6/s1600-h/Post-VMDq_Virtualization.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175361339290923314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqqtl_6YX_69Wn7mZCsLczbmguEKiMGjyw_iS_tgp4QMByWqT2WpthV7GKAfRgdgTBSkwFX0-Xjk0A_vgaNja65HtTRRnPfeAwbxuNOUzpPOsdlHQgJKGcXsY-mWOuDsliJl1K3mMAKag6/s320/Post-VMDq_Virtualization.JPG" border="0" /></a> In order to help the I/O congestion associated with the additional VMM software switching in a virtualized environment, Intel has implemented a technology called <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/virtualization/VMDq_whitepaper.pdf">VMDq </a>in their latest 10Gbit Ethernet NICs and silicon. VMDq is a technology specifically designed to offload some of the switching that was done in the VMM to networking hardware specifically designed for this function. This drastically reduces the overhead associated with I/O switching in the VMM which greatly improves throughput and overall system performance.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlJp2lHAo41qDtKaW9eHbF1osa-sV0ixWkOh0GWQb3E1gkOZY7oe2v4-i1yNU35VBryoD6wARU5w4MHX-k4_M2OSIiR-bfcv60UQMVIYGOr9soAe74I_HAjXgXck-3lr9ziXoiwq51j15/s1600-h/boost.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175361502499680578" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlJp2lHAo41qDtKaW9eHbF1osa-sV0ixWkOh0GWQb3E1gkOZY7oe2v4-i1yNU35VBryoD6wARU5w4MHX-k4_M2OSIiR-bfcv60UQMVIYGOr9soAe74I_HAjXgXck-3lr9ziXoiwq51j15/s320/boost.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div>Without VMDq, the throughput was 4.0 Gbps; with VMDq, the throughput more than doubled to 9.2 Gbps.<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPA5dVLgXIKbh_wnTCWBvQQVhekBlkU4yXNDvmPjhdwpJYXlNcFBr_4Q5DmcsAK56VIF0lpO5v8SCt4rO_fx-LQXqMYCyl0bEGaMJV4zlT7X6TDip6Z8PAnax7XXybdaXqfCP_Q9euI6cX/s1600-h/boost.JPG"></a></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-75007656245657872672008-02-02T15:34:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:30.757-06:00Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sau5teSrBL4hD2do64dQNss7qu-osJXFaHtHpIy_Rs_FiskODC0iqb9dy-AItfJVeaeuPk_BMN6Nhbh3KQ9ZNZ6MCCAsLbhSiNdrBpT7wTuCPORhbbaObY7H9_595IueuKzN_L2Ul5jp/s1600-h/cdccont_0900aecd8074dc25.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162499842962456210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1sau5teSrBL4hD2do64dQNss7qu-osJXFaHtHpIy_Rs_FiskODC0iqb9dy-AItfJVeaeuPk_BMN6Nhbh3KQ9ZNZ6MCCAsLbhSiNdrBpT7wTuCPORhbbaObY7H9_595IueuKzN_L2Ul5jp/s400/cdccont_0900aecd8074dc25.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9402/index.html">Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch - purpose built for the Data Center of the future</a>. It is designed to transform data center operations, making the customers experience in the data center more efficient, resilient and lasting. Also, check out the <a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9402/index.html">Cisco Nexus 7000 website</a> where you can explore the features and elements of the Nexus 7000 Series in our 3-D Interactive Model and view other videos introducing the Nexus 7000 family.<br /><br />The Cisco Nexus 7000 Platform is powered by <a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9372/index.html">Cisco NX-OS</a>, a state-of-the-art operating system. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is purpose-built for the data center and has many unique features and capabilities designed specifically for the most mission-critical place in the network, the data center.<br /><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><ul><li>Zero-Service Disruption Architecture </li><li>Scales beyond 15 Tbps with future support for 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet </li><li>Connectivity management processor (CMP) for integrated out-of-band management access </li><li>Graceful system operations to minimize the effect of upgrades and other software operations </li><li>Comprehensive XML API for total platform control </li><li>Built to support the emerging 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet standards </li><li>Flexible foundation for unified fabrics and unified I/O Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs) to maximize software and hardware resource utilization while providing strong security and software fault isolation </li><li>Lossless fabric architecture to support the requirements of a unified fabric </li></ul><p></p><p></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-40542615488493934842008-01-30T21:16:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:31.256-06:00VMware I/O Virtualization HBAs and Xsigo Systems I/O Director<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSk2e0NU-NGcj4gw3LxjmhNnd9TYyirgaF2Nm7F6umm6SOBy4nxWeckZBUHuNfIjhwl2FPsP_1s0PUObnVm05B_M6qI3n2FlHvzX3sGXR7DY1T6u0K2rnmQE3AY7YKFZpl_5uZOHmnHR00/s1600-h/V2_Header_ProductsOverview.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161475115305238146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSk2e0NU-NGcj4gw3LxjmhNnd9TYyirgaF2Nm7F6umm6SOBy4nxWeckZBUHuNfIjhwl2FPsP_1s0PUObnVm05B_M6qI3n2FlHvzX3sGXR7DY1T6u0K2rnmQE3AY7YKFZpl_5uZOHmnHR00/s400/V2_Header_ProductsOverview.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />A partnership between VMware Inc. and <a href="http://www.xsigo.com/">Xsigo Systems Inc</a>. will result in Xsigo's I/O virtualization product being integrated with ESX Server and its management software folded into VMware's Virtual Center GUI.<br /><br /><div></div><div><a href="http://www.xsigo.com/products/products_overview">Xsigo's I/O Director</a> consists of a rack-mounted switch that takes the place of Ethernet NICs and FC HBAs in physical servers, connecting them in turn to the user's network or storage fabric in a consolidated physical footprint. The switch also allows users to change connectivity on the fly. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />The I/O Problem<br /></span></div><div></div><div></div><div>I/O is a growing problem in large data centers. Thousands of interconnects link resources in complex configurations. Every data path must be redundant to guard against failure, and all paths must deliver the bandwidth needed for peak loads. </div><div></div><p>The resulting infrastructure involves a vast array of physical resources: adapter cards, networking switches, storage switches, and a maze of cables. Issues with large scale server I/O include:</p><ul><li>Inflexibility: Multiple interdependencies limit agility.</li><li>High cost: I/O infrastructure cost (cards, switches) can exceed server cost. </li><li>Management complexity: Multiple teams must coordinate even simple changes. </li><li></li></ul><p>According to Xsigo the benefits of using their director are:</p><ul><li>Reduce server I/O cabling by 70% </li><li>Cut connectivity capital costs by up to 50% </li><li>Deploy connectivity to any server at any time </li><li>Migrate connectivity among servers transparently </li><li>Deliver 10Gb/s bandwidth to each server </li><li>Integrate with existing management frameworks </li></ul><p></p><div>Vmware should be well aware that storage is the key a successful virtual infrastructure. By virtualizing storage, they will be able to provide a generic connectivity point for all 3rd party storage systems. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>I/O Virtualization will be a major enhancement in upcoming VI releases and will future proof changes in storage going forward. Expect to see a number of specific IO solutions for vmware in the comming year.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-28853918170353456382008-01-15T05:45:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:31.385-06:00EMC DMX-4 Delivers First Solid State Disks<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TBOXYcRTfudiFWWp5IaeoupnN0AHA3qv2fXVtvNqS__iQT0NVTEE9Gu2cnLw_Gh-rVjZZUHpF17DLasQgGTL4HA_EQ31ZAi7Jb5uIa9v788mW-Bsij8DZ3Y5cGMx26DUNnnXGIDeEVug/s1600-h/dmx4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5155672801541427138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="162" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2TBOXYcRTfudiFWWp5IaeoupnN0AHA3qv2fXVtvNqS__iQT0NVTEE9Gu2cnLw_Gh-rVjZZUHpF17DLasQgGTL4HA_EQ31ZAi7Jb5uIa9v788mW-Bsij8DZ3Y5cGMx26DUNnnXGIDeEVug/s400/dmx4.jpg" width="220" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZE-yCT4pQ-fLXwaRYs82FN0Hx7BUdmGYnGzoP_dFIS_BPvk_MkFxdxPs8EbeM9hMYahn5OW0A6PRmYqAMUzWKtEHYGDjS6T3ddFZYYFJM44n4ITb2wDuJ9lilgwl0kMhnOQIRmTVkuqGD/s1600-h/pbx-det-hdr-symmetrix-dmx3-2bay.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.emc.com/products/series/symmetrix-dmx-4.htm">Symmetrix DMX-4</a> is the first enterprise storage system to provide flash drives that break the performance barriers of traditional disk technology. <br><br> EMC plans to offer flash drives in 73 GB and 146 GB capacities for the Symmetrix DMX-4 platform beginning later in Q1 2008.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>From the <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/emc/31368/">press release</a>:</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><blockquote>The flash drives for the Symmetrix DMX-4 system have been purpose built to EMC's exacting specifications and use single-layer cell (SLC) flash technology combined with sophisticated controllers to achieve ultra fast read/write performance, high reliability and data integrity.<br /><br />This new solid-state storage tier, "tier zero," is fully supported by the Symmetrix software management suite, enabling storage administrators to simplify the provisioning of all of their storage tiers with advanced management tools including Dynamic Cache Partitioning, Virtual LUNs, Quality of Service Manager, and now Virtual Provisioning to simplify overall management and application performance<br /><br />The Symmetrix DMX-4, with support for flash drives, Fibre Channel disk drives and SATA disk drives, offers the broadest range of 'in the box' storage tiering options to enable the consolidation of all application tiers within a single system. </blockquote></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-90028735744277668502008-01-05T14:24:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:31.489-06:00BiTMICRO 1.6TB Solid State "Soft Drive"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybOuMdjOpvWQmkLb8ewSrd1YKVhCmnh4yDGs7eOMsFII3RsHJHJEOE-oKi5aiVX7yzcGzvhFfu_MVa1rZ6xdjdDuuyKRc7jocejvniLAN8hG5Of6ORXRUpVmrVPsdTs7mNrjruzLFieYI/s1600-h/bitmicro832g.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152092804566290338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiybOuMdjOpvWQmkLb8ewSrd1YKVhCmnh4yDGs7eOMsFII3RsHJHJEOE-oKi5aiVX7yzcGzvhFfu_MVa1rZ6xdjdDuuyKRc7jocejvniLAN8hG5Of6ORXRUpVmrVPsdTs7mNrjruzLFieYI/s400/bitmicro832g.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Update 2/5/2008 : E-Disk® Altima™ Ultra320 SCSI SSD combines up to <span style="font-size:130%;">1.6TB</span> pure solid state storage capacities with 30,000 IOPS and a lightning-speed sustained throughput of up to 230 MB/sec to deliver highly reliable and performance-driven storage solutions for enterprise, military, and industrial applications</span><br /><div> </div><div>Set for an official announcement at CES next week, <a href="http://www.bitmicro.com/">BiTMICRO</a>'s 832GB SSD uses some sort of proprietary technology that they call MLC memory. </div><div></div><div>BiTMICRO hasn't made any mention regarding pricing at this point, but they do plan for a launch sometime in Q3 2008.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://viroptics.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008.html">Virtual Optics's vision for 2008</a> was hot for solid state in 2008, however never this hot.</div><div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-58682374267830104462008-01-03T19:20:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:31.612-06:00Netapp Grabs Onaro<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6kZp5_aqi1q0hUTQxOUqG1zMeuee9yUZSg9IEb91fgWqOPE3bpLgYFYjx8SgQamjEnAVrx7cIM1slKiLyg0XAMNOC3OdUYpVFuTIKAMI5nPQeYSp-Jo6C1WZnPl1PEG5dFqLCRVY8Ath/s1600-h/netapp-logo.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151426809757503362" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6kZp5_aqi1q0hUTQxOUqG1zMeuee9yUZSg9IEb91fgWqOPE3bpLgYFYjx8SgQamjEnAVrx7cIM1slKiLyg0XAMNOC3OdUYpVFuTIKAMI5nPQeYSp-Jo6C1WZnPl1PEG5dFqLCRVY8Ath/s400/netapp-logo.gif" border="0" /></a>Netapp <a href="http://www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20080103">announced</a> today <em>a definitive merger agreement to acquire <a href="http://www.onaro.com/">Onaro</a>, a privately owned company headquartered in Boston, Mass. Onaro's software, deployed in 32% of Fortune 50 companies, allows enterprises to manage storage with the highest possible data availability at a fraction of normal operational costs.</em><br /><br /><br /><br />Netapp has been working hard at adding a new software look to it's hardware product line. Onaro not only adds SAN and NAS functionality, but also Vmware functionality. I suspect that Netapp is also looking at the talent pool as a key factory in the agreement. I see a tight integration comming in the future with all the Netapp functionality on the hardware side.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.onaro.com/demo/200712whatsnew/200712whatsnew.html">Watch</a> the What's New Onaro Demo (4:00)<br /><br /><br />It's only January 3rd, and yet another Virtual Optics <a href="http://viroptics.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008.html">2008</a> predition is on the table.<br /><br />dpAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-47998322456264788732008-01-02T14:53:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:31.785-06:00IBM Grabs XIV Nextra Clustered SAN<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhJ_kvFA81Fpht6hQyI5ewqaV-af8y6vMPAfBq3eMbRsyM0-FEjMMZHUrdcbfYcRrkQA0Ba_xAb1WQ92u2x39Yvq_pSZSU-sQ7qX26zLYWFV7cCYhQ1H71JxC7j4fOO8Li9ldDcmB6M3u/s1600-h/nextra_ovw.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150987773905538930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHhJ_kvFA81Fpht6hQyI5ewqaV-af8y6vMPAfBq3eMbRsyM0-FEjMMZHUrdcbfYcRrkQA0Ba_xAb1WQ92u2x39Yvq_pSZSU-sQ7qX26zLYWFV7cCYhQ1H71JxC7j4fOO8Li9ldDcmB6M3u/s400/nextra_ovw.jpg" border="0" /></a>Looks like my <a href="http://viroptics.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008.html">#2 predition for 2008</a> is already comming true. <a href="http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=142195&f_src=byteandswitch_default">IBM throws down a rumored $350M for clustering startup</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.xivstorage.com/">XIV</a> is an unknown clustering solution with 40 customers that provides SAN connectivity in a cluster configuration. <a href="http://www.xivstorage.com/nextra/">XIV's Nextra</a> solution provides point in time snapshots and scales to 1 Petabyte<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />XIV is led by <a href="http://www.xivstorage.com/company/company_management.asp">Moshe Yanai</a>, one of the key architects of data storage systems and instrumental in the development of EMC's Symmetrix and DMX product lines throughout the 1990s. XIV was founded in 2002 by five graduates of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpiot_program" target="_blank">Talpiot</a> program, Israel's elite military program for technology leaders. The innovative Nextra technology has been in development since 2002, with first customer installations in 2005.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-70360033695338111342008-01-01T01:09:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:32.064-06:002008<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwI0NWMubG9sFqPLjK3gGv041HfoRGquBF2W5AxJgX1aKlsC1vuetp5r98g6RakyEdKxgDYPoMdT_7tUCHpowamBdiVdORMc2jKn_hLCxyK8OOJs8RzopFlV2Gd1Wu-a78B1nra8ljuZBV/s1600-h/viroptics_blogspot_com-world.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150403246036422498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwI0NWMubG9sFqPLjK3gGv041HfoRGquBF2W5AxJgX1aKlsC1vuetp5r98g6RakyEdKxgDYPoMdT_7tUCHpowamBdiVdORMc2jKn_hLCxyK8OOJs8RzopFlV2Gd1Wu-a78B1nra8ljuZBV/s400/viroptics_blogspot_com-world.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div>Well Happy New Year!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I started this Blog on 9/11/2007 and I just tracked my 3069th unique visitor (see above for their locations)</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>My visions for 2008</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>1. 10Gbe will become the standard for NAS storage</div><div>2. Clustered Storage (such as Isilon) will pick up steam</div><div>3. Solid State storage will be the talk of 2008</div><div>4. VMware will continue to increase market share</div><div>5. Infiniband Storage and VMware will be the 2008 solution</div><div>6. Several Storage vendors will consolidate</div><div>7. NFS RDMA NFSv4 pNFS over 10Gbe will outperform Fibre Channel for Vmware Datastores</div><div>8. FCOE will be limited to few applications</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>And on a green note, <a href="http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/nanosolargroup/">Nanosolar</a> will change the world.</div><div> </div><div>Dan </div><div>January 1 2008</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><br /><div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6650115505731870156.post-68946320989582481432007-12-30T23:55:00.000-06:002008-12-11T07:12:32.368-06:00Isilon and Vmware ESX<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nlC1XBD_ANgylNom0K-YqrWIhNJ22ILJAZ5_xcl_r48VkF_cPRpzW_6SuJ_nODT8Ym1qkQmbAsAU0Jr5ldOD4xmp8j8MXrJ3SF5IUoLQhvkgPwnHHR-3d3AqAfy4qDjg-EM1GclKsBWr/s1600-h/main_products_platforms.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150012897933725522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nlC1XBD_ANgylNom0K-YqrWIhNJ22ILJAZ5_xcl_r48VkF_cPRpzW_6SuJ_nODT8Ym1qkQmbAsAU0Jr5ldOD4xmp8j8MXrJ3SF5IUoLQhvkgPwnHHR-3d3AqAfy4qDjg-EM1GclKsBWr/s400/main_products_platforms.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div>I've done limited VMware ESX testing using Isilon as datastores, and so far no issues.<br /></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.isilon.com/">Isilon </a>has the ability to fail NFS mounts from one head to another without any inflight read or write loss which is impressive. They also provide up to N+4 protection which is the highest that I've seen. N+4 means you can have up to 4 heads fail without data loss. </div><br /><div>Storage (up to 12TB in 2U) can literally be added in 30 seconds. Plug in power, ethernet, and infiniband cables and power on. The front panel asks "Join cluster xxxx Y/N". Select Y and 30 seconds later you have another 12TB. </div><div><br />Isilon also has the ability to dynamically load balance NFS clients across the cluster, which will allow you to load balance your ESX host using multiple NFS mounts. Hopefully Vmware will soon support dynamic DNS IPs for cluster storage, which would allow only one NFS mount.<br /></div><br />Performance using one ESX hosts is just as good the other NAS solutions I've tested. Each Isilon node adds CPU and cache, so a 6 node cluster is like having 6 NAS heads! So basically the cluster can grow up to 1.6PB and 96 nodes and performance gets better as you add nodes.<br /><br /><p></p><p>Isilon does Point in Time snapshots at any directory level which is also unique to the NAS market. </p><p>Isilon currently only does file replication to a secondary cluster, which means that if a file changes the whole file needs to be transferred to the second cluster. Block level replication is in the works...</p><p> </p>Isilon has some real potential and some very unique features with OneFS, and with 10G support early next year Isilon might be a preferred solution soon.<br /><br /><br /><br />I've started a Isilon Yahoo group here: <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Isilon/" mce_href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Isilon/">Isilon at Yahoo! Groups</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />dp<br /><br /><a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Isilon/" mce_href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Isilon/"></a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07522825210957557149noreply@blogger.com0