Making storage highly redundant has been arguably the single largest challenge for storage engineers for years. Keeping data in multiple places to allow it to survive unscathed if things go badly…
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Storage Spaces has been around for many years in one form or another. The primitives for it started with Windows Home Server, which was built on SBS 2003. Since then,…
For a few years, jumbo frames have been all the rage for storage and network people. However, a lot of people don’t understand what exactly jumbo frames are and when/why…
When was the last time you really had to care about the geometry of a hard disk? I would wager it’s been at LEAST 25 years. Well, worry not! We’re…
Did you know that fiber optics aren’t inherently faster than copper? How about the fact that almost all of the latency in your long distance links comes not from the…
Let me start this article out with a disclaimer: it all depends. Using Veeam’s SAN-based snapshots definitely has its upsides, but there are a lot of variables, like how often…
When it comes to deciding what RAID levels to configure, it’s important to understand how parity impacts performance. Most everyone who works in IT is fairly familiar with the standard seven…
A common mistake made when laying out storage, be it in a SAN or in a server, is not fully thinking through the relative performance of the drives in the…
Today’s article is by X-IO Technologies‘ 13-year veteran Storage Systems Engineer Jeff Boling. Jeff frequently serves as a storage subject matter expert for Citrix, SNIA, Microsoft, Cisco and VMware audiences, as…
It’s no secret DataCore is one of our favorite products for larger companies. Not only does it seamlessly abstract the storage, eliminating silos, but it provides a very functional high…
In modern IT, it’s easy to lose sight of fundamentals. We get so caught up in VMware, Exchange and SQL and we forget about the underlying building blocks of everything. Storage…
DataCore recently launched 10.0 PSP1. While the name sounds like it is just another incremental upgrade on their admittedly already amazing software, this is far more than a simple PSP…