Musings on storage, tuning, backups and more – delivered with a no-nonsense approach. By Dimitris Krekoukias
This is going to be another post that was inspired by sheer frustration.
It’s one thing talking to someone about adopting a totally new platform and meeting with resistance – I get it, it’s not what they’re used to, it’s new stuff, they don’t know if it will work etc. etc.
Continue reading “Are you using the features of your existing platforms? And, if not, why not?”
Another one came in. I’ll keep calling the offenders out until the craziness stops. Fellow engineers – remember that, regardless of where we work, our mission should be to help the customer out first and foremost. Then make a sale, if possible/applicable. I implore you to get your priorities straight. If it looks like you’re losing the fight, figure out what your true value is. If you have no true value, you always have the option of bombing the price. But please, don’t sell someone an under-configured system.
Continue reading “More tales from the field: Sizing best practices – does Compellent follow them?”
I’m in MN prepping to teach a course (my signature anti-FUD extravaganza), and thought I’d get a few things off my chest that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. Some Stravinsky to provide the vibes and I’m good to go. It’s getting really late BTW and I’m sure this will progressively get less coherent as time goes by, but I like to write my posts in one shot.
It’s an undeniable fact that many customers, while they would love to use the highly advanced features of modern disk arrays, have already made a big investment in legacy storage. Sure, it doesn’t have all the great features, but it’s already there, frequently there’s a lot of it, and the maintenance isn’t expiring for another year or two so it’s not economically feasible to get rid of it.
There was some weird backlash against my site and my person recently – see here and here and in the comments here. Chuck Hollis got all uppity about whether I work at NetApp (with, for) or not.
I find it interesting that this only came up when I wrote something pro-NetApp. Wasn’t even anti-EMC.
Continue reading “So, are there any independent bloggers? Really?”