Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together
Category Archives: Storage
Hardware is Hard, Software is Easy. is 2011 the year of the VSA?
Posted by on February 3, 2011
I have done a lot of lab-work with Virtual Storage Appliances, mainly because proper shared storage is hard to come-by for lab-time so I’ve used the following for the last few years running inside Virtual Machines OpenFiler FreeNAS Celerra VSA Uber HP LeftHand Nexentastor The more vendors that release software versions of their kit [...]
Home Labbers beware of using Western Digital SATA HDDs with a RAID Controller
Posted by on January 31, 2011
I recently came across a post on my favourite car forum (pistonheads.com) asking about the best home NAS solution – original link here. What I found interesting was a link to a page on the Western Digital support site stating that desktop versions of their hard drives should not be used in a RAID configuration [...]
New Storage Benchmarking Tool from VMware Labs
Posted by on January 10, 2011
To quote the site.. IOBlazer is a multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark. IOBlazer runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and it is capable of generating a highly customizable workload. Parameters like IO size and pattern, burstiness (number of outstanding IOs), burst interarrival time, read vs. write mix, buffered vs. direct IO, etc., can be configured [...]
