Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
By now most people dealing with storage know that IBM acquired the XIV technology. What IBM is doing now is trying to push the technology to everyone and their dog, for reasons we’ll get into…
Continue reading “So what exactly is IBM trying to do with the XIV?”
Been a while since I posted anything – there’s a TON of material but some of us actually do more than blog, it’s quarter/year end, and I barely have time to go to the bathroom…
Continue reading “Cinebench benchmarks – performance comparison between Vista 64 and Mac OS X”
So I’m now the proud owner of a tricked-out 2.8GHz MBP.
Naturally I’ve been tinkering with it already (only had it for 2 days). I’ve disabled swapfile encryption, for instance, and I think it makes it have teh snappy.
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”
Found this while surfing and couldn’t resist posting the link. This guy did a massive array of tests on pretty much all versions of Windows that matter at the moment. The short version? If it’s performance you’re after, there’s no clear winner, since they all have their strengths. Overall, of the currently-supported OSes 2008 server seems to have the edge, as indicated by my own experiences. Attaching the results below, but here’s a link, too.
