StorageSystem AdministratorVirtualization Considerations When Thin Provisioning Your SAN or Virtual Disks Storage is kind of expensive, so oversubscribing where possible is a good way for you…Brian McCleskeySeptember 7, 2017
StorageSystem Administrator Tips for Datacenter Migration Planning Datacenter migrations are challenging in their own right. Not only do all of the concerns…Brent EarlsAugust 3, 2017
StorageSystem Administrator Planning a Datacenter A datacenter on its face seems like a very simple thing. You take a room,…Brent EarlsAugust 1, 2017
NetworksStorageSystem Administrator Fibre Channel Switch Options Update In a previous post we talked about the death of QLogic switches. At the time,…Brent EarlsMay 25, 2017
StorageSystem AdministratorVirtualization PSA: Read Your Hardware Compatibility Lists! Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) are an often overlooked, yet they are a very important part…Brent EarlsFebruary 14, 2017
StorageVirtualizationVMware Understanding Hard Disk Sector Size, Part 2: Support for 4K UPDATE: VMware 6.5 (and VMFS 6.0) supports 512e drives as direct attached drives. vSphere &…Brent EarlsFebruary 9, 2017
NetworksStorage Fibre Channel Switch Options As you may have heard, with the recent purchase of QLogic by Cavium, QLogic’s 8…Brent EarlsDecember 27, 2016
DataCoreStorage Unraveling DataCore’s Three SPC-1 Ratings DataCore’s recent SPC-1 published numbers have been making quite the splash in the industry. If…Brent EarlsJuly 19, 2016
MicrosoftStorageWindows Server 2016 What’s New in Windows Server 2016: Storage Replica Making storage highly redundant has been arguably the single largest challenge for storage engineers for…Brent EarlsJune 21, 2016
MicrosoftStorageVirtualizationWindows Server 2016 What’s New in Windows Server 2016: Storage Spaces Direct Storage Spaces has been around for many years in one form or another. The primitives…Brent EarlsJune 9, 2016
NetworksStorage Jumbo Frames: Do You Really Need Them? For a few years, jumbo frames have been all the rage for storage and network…Brent EarlsMay 19, 2016
Storage Understanding Hard Disk Sector Size, Part 1: The Change When was the last time you really had to care about the geometry of a…Brent EarlsMarch 29, 2016