Tag: storage
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – A Preview For The Storage Admin
Many reviews have been written about OpenSolaris since its release, but all of them barely tread beyond the desktop aspect, with the obligatory screenshots of the GNOME environment and a high-level description of only the major features most are already Read More …
Crying “FUD” doesn’t always mean you’re right
…and it sure doesn’t grant you instant vindication. It appears that DaveM (Linux networking and SPARC port guru) has gotten seriously wound up in response to a blog post by Jeff Bonwick (Sun’s storage and kernel guru.) As one can Read More …
Sun and Qlogic to open up the source of storage software
Sun has announced that they will be releasing several of their storage products to the OpenSolaris community! From their announcement: Sun StorageTek 5800 storage system (Honeycomb) client interfaces along with the Honeycomb software developer kit (SDK) and Honeycomb emulator/server. Honeycomb Read More …
Sun Availability Suite blog
The maintainer(s) of Availability Suite (aka AVS) now have their own blog. I can’t wait to learn more about it!
The state of enterprise storage for the Little Guy
Earlier this month I spewed some vitriol over an unpleasant discovery regarding the Sun StorageTek 6140 array and its underwhelming out-of-the-box feature set (which, three weeks later, remains an unresolved issue even after contacting and working with my VAR, Sun Read More …
OpenSolaris gets more storage capabilities
The OpenSolaris community got a huge present today by way of Sun’s open sourcing of its StorageTek Availability Suite. This announcement by Jim Dunham goes into the details, but here’s a summary: Availability Suite is comprised of two primary components: Read More …
Solaris 10’s new multipath storage tool (Part 1)
Solaris 10 11/06 was released in late 2006 with a plethora of new features, and among them a new tool called mpathadm, which comes as part of the SUNWmpathadm package. Before I delve into how this specific tool works and Read More …
Sun StorageTek 6140: Buyer beware
My thoughts on the Sun StorageTek 6140 array (and this applies to other Engenio OEM’d storage arrays of the same type, such as the IBM DS4200 and DS4700)
It’s a long rant. Be prepared. Read More …
The hard drive: 50 years old
Here’s something that should be dear to any storage manager’s heart: the 50th birthday of the hard drive. CNet has posted a silent video of IBM’s first hard drive which held a total of 5MB of data. IBM announced this Read More …
Sun’s new storage arrays – O.K. but not great.
I read over the specs of Sun’s new mid-range storage models, the StorageTek 6140 and 6540, which were announced yesterday (8/11/2006) and the corners of my mouth must have visibly sank after scanning through the specs and not seeing the Read More …