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- Storage Area Network A network of storage disks. In large enterprises, a SAN connects multiple servers to a centralized pool of disk storage. Compared to managing hundreds...
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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...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- Configuring Off-Host Backups: Symantec Backup Exec and Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs
- Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server are mission-critical components in today's business environment. IT administrators need to ensure that access to data and email communications for employees, customers, and partners is maintained 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The greater reliance on all forms of electronic communication raises...
- White papers 2009-04-08
- BlueLock Builds Low-Cost, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions With HP LeftHand SANs, VMware Combination
- One of the country's leading providers of infrastructure-as-a-service, BlueLock gives clients precisely the amount of computing capacity, storage, bandwidth and disaster recovery capability that they need at any given time, with the flexibility to scale those needs on demand. BlueLock wanted flexible, high-performance architecture to meet constantly changing client needs....
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- HP LeftHand SANs Put to the Test at Los Angeles Mission College; Earn High Marks
- Los Angeles Mission College LAMC is a Southern California-based community college with approximately 10,000 students and 550 full-time and part-time faculty/staff members. Like many educational institutions, LAMC found that its storage needs were growing every year as they successfully facilitate accommodations for everything from student records and staff and faculty...
- Case studies 2009-04-01
- 'New Dell' makes big server push
- 'New Dell' makes big server pushBeen using dell servers here for the last 8 yearsI just switched to IBM, but that was because of a price break i got from a reseller when combined with a SAN.I still have 25 in various configurations, some 6 years old up to 1...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- Ten Things DBAs Need to Know About Storage
- SQL Server database administrators DBAs and storage area network SAN administrators may not see eye to eye on everything, but they agree communication about storage needs is vital. In this Quest white paper, learn what a DBA should know about storage to better communicate, and work effectively with, SAN administrators....
- White papers 2009-03-16
- Cut Costs by Upgrading Your EMC Connectrix MDS SAN to 8 G Fibre Channel and FCoE
- Is the existing SAN ready for greater performance while lowering Total Cost of Ownership TCO by using 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel Over Ethernet FCoE By upgrading the EMC Connectrix MDS SAN infrastructure, one can take advantage of the higher speeds and improved reliability to not only reduce...
- Webcasts 2009-03-13
- SAN Storage: Coping with Server Virtualization
- Server virtualization is easy, but networked storage for virtualized servers is anything but. Key challenges include: storage network oversubscription virtual server downtime due to provisioning and volume expansion tradeoffs among data reliability, availability, performance, and cost minimizing silent data corruption ...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Benefits of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs
- As the volume and criticality of data continue to grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By providing a network of storage resources to servers, SANs uncouple storage from individual platforms, allowing data transfer among all nodes on the...
- White papers 2009-03-01
- Storage choices
- Storage choicesWhat about the lords of storage?You know, the guys whose entire life is dedicated to carving out disk space? How do these highly paid specialists maintain simple JBODS or 74xx devices? Where are the switches? Where is the fiber? You mean they might have to log into a *gasp*...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-13
- The IT theme for 2009: simplify
- The IT theme for 2009: simplifyWhat's your outlook for the cloud Murph?With the dismal economic prospects, does not the cloud factor in as a means of controlling cost and simplifying? Yes?I am a registered AWS provider.Thanks Murph.Dietrich T. Schmitz[url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]Linux IT Consultant[/url]Mildly Surprisedhow much I relate to this post. e.g.:"and prayed...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
- Storage networks
- Storage networksBack me upThe main selling point of SANs was the promised ability to do "offline backups". IOW since you have moved all of your data into one place, you should be able to back that stuff up to tape - in the background. Every sysadmin would welcome giving up...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-06
- Storage networks
- Storage area networks sprang up largely in response to the complexities of managing storage in a Microsoft client-server world - itself ultimately a response to the small machine limitations inherent in both Windows and x86. Today, however, those limitations are receding for most small to mid range businesses and the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture
- From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture???"At a ratio of about one support technician for every 20 NT servers, PC staffing exploded along with server populations."Could you give reliable source for that figure ?"these problems led to the evolution of a one application per box rule"in the late 90 this rule...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Storage Consolidation Made Simple With FibreCAT SX
- A SAN is a specialized network that provides highly available storage subsystems to multiple hosts servers. This storage network is primarily based on fibre optic technology and allows for very high transfer rates (up to 400 MB/s) between hosts and the storage system. The basic idea of a SAN lies...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Webcast: How to Get the Most Out of Microsoft Windows Deployments with Intelligent iSCSI Storage
- Intelligent virtual storage is the key to optimizing application performance, integration and protection. Listen to this on demand TechRepublic Webcast to see how Dell EqualLogicTM PS Series iSCSI SANs can provide enhanced data availability by delivering comprehensive data protection and rapid recovery for Microsoft applications such as SQL ServerTM and...
- Webcasts 2008-10-01
- PMMC Runs SQL Server Approximately 40 Percent Faster With Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN, Speeds Storage Provisioning for New Clients
- Preferred Medical Marketing Corporation PMMC enables hospitals and large physician groups to remain financially secure by analyzing the economic implications of new reimbursement terms with insurers, monitoring the payment accuracy for services rendered, and recovering underpayments. Awkward management user interfaces and expensive hardware made it difficult for PMMC to provision...
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- SAN Deployment on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using Emulex HBAs and CNAs
- With the unrelenting escalation of costs for power, cooling and data center footprint, IT managers are under pressure to extract even more performance from their hardware and software. Server virtualization never made more sense. Microsoft's Hyper-V is the next-generation hypervisor technology that provides highly efficient server virtualization fully integrated with...
- White papers 2008-10-01
- American Land Lease and Virtualization Performance Implement Virtual Storage Solution Featuring D-Link DSN-3200 iSCSI SAN
- Weather, regulatory requirements and data availability needs forced American Land Lease to consider a solid backup and disaster recovery system. Although the company is not particularly large, as a publicly traded company they needed to meet Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements for regulators, auditors and shareholders. Virtualization Performance suggested a simple and...
- Case studies 2008-09-30
- Safeway Insurance Uses Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Arrays to Increase I/O Performance for a Critical SQL Server Application by 20 Percent
- A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's online application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Area Network SAN enabled Safeway to eliminate the bottleneck, add new capabilities to the online application, and reduce storage administration time. A Dell EqualLogic PS...
- Case studies 2008-09-01
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