Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
Here’s the deal: EMC has a lot of cool stuff. Lots of it came through acquisitions. Lots of it runs on the x86 platform, believe it or not.
At the moment one needs to buy multiple boxes from EMC to do NAS, SAN, archiving, etc.
Continue reading “Should EMC move to more multi-functional devices?”
While waiting for another EMC World session to start (this one is at “Guru” level, let’s see) I thought I might share some of my experience regarding running Netbackup on very large setups – nothing like learning through pain.
As has been my idiom lately, I will comment on food.
Went to Charley’s steakhouse while attending EMC World.
Continue reading “Just ate at Charley’s steakhouse in Orlando”
Anyone feel that deduplication is not finding its final resting place in backups and WAN accelerators?
Continue reading “I wonder when dedup will make it to the arrays”
I use my laptop so much that I sometimes forget about some server-type tunings.
I resuscitated my hot-rod AMD box – it’s a grossly overclocked monster but only has 1GB RAM (since it’s hard to find that kind of fast RAM in bigger sizes, and using 4 sticks prohibits me from overclocking it so much). Let’s just say the CPU is running a full GHz faster than stock, and with air, not water or peltier coolers.
Continue reading “Another windows tuning I forgot to mention”