Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
So, let’s talk about this not-so-hypothetical customer… They have:
They asked me to propose a solution that will back everything up and cross-replicate the backups between the sites. They want to move as far away from tape as possible.
Backing up VMs seems to be one of the topics nobody can seem to be able to agree on despite a plethora of reading material on the subject – and maybe because of said plethora.
It’s after 4AM, I can’t sleep since I’m in pain after a car accident and I’ve had altogether too much caffeine. I’ve already watched 3 movies. BTW, “I am Legend” – WTF! Never have I seen a decent book butchered so much! The ideas in the book were so much stronger. Seriously, go get the book and forget the movie. Sorry, Will.
Continue reading “So, how frequently do you really test DR?”
Based on some recent experiences I wanted to make people aware of some caveats with setting up a VTL with deduplication. This is specifically regarding the EMC DL3D (AKA Quantum DXi) but applies to all of them. This will be a mercifully short and to the point post. Here’s the rub:
Continue reading “A word of caution when setting up a deduplicating VTL”
Maybe the longest title for a post ever. And one of my longest, most rambling posts ever, it seems.
Recently we did a demo for a customer that I thought opened an interesting can of worms. Let’s set the stage – and, BTW, let it be known that I lost my train of thought multiple times writing this over multiple days so it may seem a bit incoherent (unusually, it wasn’t written in one shot).