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- Opnet - finger pointing raised to high art
- Opnet - finger pointing raised to high artDon't believe it will workOne of the biggest drawbacks to virtualizing everything is that you virtualize your problems! Multiple layers of virtualization along with complex architectures makes tracking down performance problems just about impossible. Here's one of my own examples: EMC disk arrays...
- Tags: Storage management, Storage, OPNET
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- SANRAD - Storage virtualization for high availabiltiy
- SANRAD - Storage virtualization for high availabiltiyLooks like lock-inWhen you sell hardware to go with your software, you are trapping customers into a proprietary system. What if something goes wrong and you lose all of your data? It happened to Ford when IBM's SVC took a dump and couldn't recover....
- Tags: IP storage, Storage management, Virtualization, SANRAD, storage virtualization, storage
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Deploying Oracle RAC 10g With ASM on AIX With the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
- This paper details the step-by-step configuration of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller SVC with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 RAC and Oracle Automatic Storage Management ASM on the IBM AIX 5.3 operating system. The test exercise demonstrates that it is easy to configure...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, IBM AIX, Storage, Oracle Real Application Cluster, IBM Corp., Test Exercise, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Hyper-V: It's here
- As reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft released its Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform (Updated: 4:20PM EST)for Windows Server 2008 today, in a virtual shot across competitor and market leader VMWare's bow, which currently holds over an 80 percent market share in x86 virtualization. We...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows Server, Intel X86, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Service Pack, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, SMP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and System Storage DS8100 15,000 Mailbox Exchange Solution Review Program Storage Solution
- The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller SVC is a system that presents highly available virtualized storage to a host. Logically the SVC sits between the hosts and storage. Storage is presented to the SVC instead of directly to the host. The SVC takes that storage, virtualizes it, and presents...
- Tags: Mailbox, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, IBM Corp., SVC, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-05-19
- SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
- The IBM SAN Volume Controller SVC has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way towards a stable, reliable, and scalable SVC installation; conversely, a poor SAN environment can make...
- Tags: Performance, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, SAN, Best Practice, IBM Corp., IBM SAN Volume Controller, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-10
- Macs and iPhones: impolitic Apple hardware can be hard to hide
- Like the Japanese car in the Dearborn auto plant parking lot, Macs and iPhones must create problems for switchers working at Apple competitors as well as companies with a PC-or-die IT policy. The other day, I heard a tale from a longtime Mac user who has worked...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): "A Building-Block Approach With DS4000 Storage"
- The IBM SVC SAN Volume Controller scales far beyond any single large storage subsystem, so an overall storage methodology should be employed to manage the storage at the virtual layer. A virtual storage strategy is unique to each install and is developed and deployed by understanding the IBM SAN Volume...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Storage Strategy, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Qantas ditches Linux for AIX
- Qantas ditches Linux for AIX????"Internal surveys identified fatigue among the airline's 1,200 finance staffers as a particular concern, she added."Perhaps if we downed a few Fosters then the last few paragraphs might make sense? What does any of that have to do with moving off of Linux and onto...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux Zealot, IBM AIX, Linux, Qantas Airways Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- ah, so what's a billion, or two?
- ah, so what's a billion, or two?In today's paperThe tax people promise to be make in operation this Thursday - making it close to a two week shutdown.An unrelated note to B.O.F.H. and NetArchBoth of you noted, last week, that GNU sytood for Gnu's not Unix - and it bothered...
- Tags: Operating systems, GNU, Unix, kernel, OSF
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- Vista RC2 x64 'Ultimate' progress report
- Vista RC2 x64 'Ultimate' progress reportNot Ready for Prime TimeThere's been much speculation regarding when Vista Gold Master will release, particularly to remove the 'rough' edges it might be best to delay until early Spring 2007, at least.This reinforces the idea that in the business sector, 'smart' IT isn't going...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), PatchGuard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- ESG Labs Report on the ROI of IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
- Enterprise Strategy Group ESG Labs performed a hands-on analysis of IBM's System Storage SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization solution in order to validate its value proposition to customers. ESG Labs found that SAN Volume Controller is a rock-solid, feature-rich platform that delivers on the promise of network based storage virtualization:...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, ROI, Enterprise Strategy Group, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
- A good warning on Storage virtualization
- A good warning on Storage virtualizationTotally agree surpisinglyNow you know how I make my living - trying to fix performance problems on the SAN. The Storage team has that mindset that everything is in the "storage cloud" IBM nomenclature.With IBM, they add yet another level of virtualization between the server...
- Tags: Storage management, Storage team, environment, storage, file system, virtualization, storage virtualization
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- The (traditional) disaster recovery plan
- The traditional disaster recovery planScope problemsMost DR plans are for individual servers or projects and their servers. Rarely is the entirety of the data center considered. What happens when you migrate all of your data to IBM SVC, and it takes a dump? 200 different projects with ALL the same...
- Tags: disaster recovery, disaster recovery plan, DRP
- Discussion threads 2006-08-14
- Making storage technology work for you
- Making storage technology work for youJamie that is all nice and cozie, how about Infiniband-based storage? ??When will IBM upgrade its srorage offerings to include IB ? SGI, DataDirect, SUN/STK, engenio, etc. ALREADY OFFER IB based solutions. The current 4Gbit/sec fibre-channel IBM solutions are overpriced, underperforming and expensive. IB 4X...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- The top ten most influential (Unix) technical strategies today
- The top ten most influential Unix technical strategies todayThin-client paradigm didn't make the top 10?Interesting . . . 1 million Chinese can't be wrong - or could they? ;)ZFS?Just why is ANOTHER journaling filesytem that much of a factor? Either you are as good as VERITAS, or you try to...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., strategy, Unix
- Discussion threads 2006-05-11
- SAP liveCache 7.5 and MaxDB 7.5 on IBM TotalStorage DS 8000 / ESS / SVC
- In an SAP SCM environment, liveCache is becoming an increasingly mission critical component. liveCache, like any other database technology, can be provided with a fail-over solution using traditional cluster implementations. An HACMP fail-over solution for liveCache has been available on AIX, and endorsed by SAP, for several years (starting with...
- Tags: SAP AG, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., liveCache, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-04-11
- Disaster Recovery Planning and hardware change
- Disaster Recovery Planning and hardware changeTrue, but..why not use 1 server with multi-cores and configure it with a program such as VM Ware to create multiple machines with a different task?For T2000, don't need VMwareSince Solaris 10 supports Solaris Containers as standard on all systems, including x86, no need for...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Strategy, hardware, disaster recovery planning, DR Plans, C, information technology, server, disaster recovery
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- Help needed on Sun POD design and cost
- Help needed on Sun POD design and costabout the router/switchYou could use an F5 Big IP (http://www.f5.com/products/bigip/)It's in use in some very big US hospitals and in use by the British government for their healthcare departement (e.g medical imaging, patient records etc..)Target market?What's the target market for such a pod?It...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, storage
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
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