In a previous post we talked about the death of QLogic switches. At the time,…
Brent EarlsMay 25, 2017
UPDATE: VMware 6.5 (and VMFS 6.0) supports 512e drives as direct attached drives. vSphere &…
Brent EarlsFebruary 9, 2017
As you may have heard, with the recent purchase of QLogic by Cavium, QLogic’s 8…
Brent EarlsDecember 27, 2016
DataCore’s recent SPC-1 published numbers have been making quite the splash in the industry. If…
Brent EarlsJuly 19, 2016
Making storage highly redundant has been arguably the single largest challenge for storage engineers for…
Brent EarlsJune 21, 2016
Storage Spaces has been around for many years in one form or another. The primitives…
Brent EarlsJune 9, 2016
For a few years, jumbo frames have been all the rage for storage and network…
Brent EarlsMay 19, 2016
Did you know that fiber optics aren’t inherently faster than copper? How about the fact…
Brent EarlsOctober 1, 2015
Let me start this article out with a disclaimer: it all depends. Using Veeam’s SAN-based…
Jason ThomasSeptember 29, 2015
When it comes to deciding what RAID levels to configure, it’s important to understand how…
Brent EarlsSeptember 3, 2015