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Saving $90,000 per minute with VMAX Federated Live Migration
One of the customers I work with regularly has a set of key MS SQL databases totaling over 100TB in size which process transactions for their customer facing systems. If these databases are down, no...
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Auto-Tiering, Cloud Storage, and Risk-Free Thin Pools
Some customers are afraid of thin provisioning… Practically every week I have discussions with customers about leveraging thin provisioning to reduce their storage costs and just as often the customer...
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If You Are Using SSDs, You Should Be Encrypting
I saw the following article come across Twitter today. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/ssd-security-the-worst-of-all-worlds/1326 In it, Robin Harris describes the issues around data recovery and...
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Defining RTO and RPO for your data…
Do you have a clearly defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for your data? What about a clearly defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO)? One challenge I run in to quite often is that, while most...
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Building Blocks – Part I: Build your own #PrivateCloud
Part 1 -> The Building Block Approach As 2011 wraps up and I have a little time at home over the holidays, I’ve been reflecting on some of the customer projects I’ve worked on over the past year....
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Building Blocks – Part II: The Building Block Approach to the #PrivateCloud
Build your own Private Cloud <- Part 2 -> How many Building Blocks Since server virtualization abstracts the physical hardware from the operating systems and applications, essential for Cloud...
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Building Blocks – Part III: How Many Building Blocks does your #PrivateCloud...
The Building Block Approach <- Part 3 -> Sizing your Building Block The key to sizing Building Blocks is to calculate the ratio between the compute and storage metrics. First you need to take a...
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Building Blocks – Part IV: Sizing Your #PrivateCloud Building Blocks
How many Building Blocks? <- Part 4 -> Does your Building Block need a Fabric? Now that we know we’ll be deploying about 562 VM’s per Building Block we can use the other metrics to determine the...
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Building Blocks – Part V: Does your #PrivateCloud building block need a fabric?
Sizing your Building Block <- Part 5 -> I’m too small for Building Blocks You may have noticed in the last installment that I did not include any FibreChannel switches in the example BOM. There...
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Building Blocks – Part VI: But my #PrivateCloud is too small (or too big) for...
Does your Building Block need a Fabric? <- Part 6 Okay, so this is all well and good, but you have been reading these posts and thinking that your environment is nowhere near the size of my example...
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