DELLEMC has announced an All Flash Isilon targeting the Extreme performance NAS markets. Below is a high-level breakdown of the new platform. Extreme density, modular and incredibly scalable all-flash tier Start a cluster with a single chassis & scale to 100+ chassis in a single global namespace Get up to 1PB of Flash from 1 … Continue reading Isilon All-Flash
New features in RecoverPoint 5.0
DellEMC just released RecoverPoint 5.0. Listed below are the new features that you can find in the release notes of RecoverPoint 5.0. Remove volume from a consistency group without journal loss Volumes can now be removed from a consistency group without incurring journal loss. Adding volumes to a consistency group that are larger than the capacity … Continue reading New features in RecoverPoint 5.0
Unity VSA NAS Replication
We will cover the replication of a NAS Server within a UnityVSA Deployment. Listed below are the prereqs: Unity VSA deployed as a source and a target Storage Pools created at Source and Target NAS server deployed at Source Creating a Replication Interface The first step in the process is creating replication interfaces at both … Continue reading Unity VSA NAS Replication
New Beginnings at RoundTower Technologies!
On 8/8 I took the position of Senior Systems Engineer at RoundTower Technologies. I will continue implementing storage solutions as well as adding new skills involving Isilon, Data Protection, and getting into the full Data Center stack. I look forward to what RoundTower has to bring in the area that I have grown my career, … Continue reading New Beginnings at RoundTower Technologies!
Unity VSA Storage Pool Creation
Once you have deployed Unity VSA, as covered in the previous blog, you will need to create a storage pool if you want to serve out any storage. I have listed the steps below. Under the Storage Pool Section go to Pools. Select the + to start the “Create Pool Wizard” Name the Pool Assign … Continue reading Unity VSA Storage Pool Creation
Unity VSA Deployment
Unity VSA Deployment EMC released the new mid-range storage array “Unity” at EMC World this year. There are 3 different options: Unity All Flash, Unity Hybrid Flash and UnityVSA. The Unity VSA platform can scale up to 50TB and can be fully unified. The UnityVSA Community edition allows up to 4TB of capacity for free! … Continue reading Unity VSA Deployment
Unity: Next Generation NAS & File Capabilities
True Unification No separate hardware for File and Block Built in 10GbT IP Ports (2 per SP) Flexible multi-tenant virtual file serving technology Provides SMB and/or NFS No separate CIFS server Unified storage pool architecture Create a Storage Pool, then a NAS server, then the file system Private LUN will be created in the pool … Continue reading Unity: Next Generation NAS & File Capabilities
SUPERNAP
I am currently at EMC World and being part of EMC Elect I was able to take a tour of SUPERNAP in Las Vegas. I have been in a lot of datacenters in my career and I have to admit that this is the most impressive facility I have ever seen. Below are some of … Continue reading SUPERNAP
VMAX: Behind The White Light Of The All Flash VMAX 450F/FX & 850F/FX
Summary of the VMAX All Flash Session 4M IOPS 8TB SSD Simple, Simple, Simple 2 models, VMAX 450 and VMAX 850 4PBu FC, FICON and iSCSI Scales up to 192 ports V-BRICK = 2 DAEs Raid 5 (7+1) and Raid 6 (14+2) Engine connections are thru infiniband Participates in the Xpect More program Software licensed … Continue reading VMAX: Behind The White Light Of The All Flash VMAX 450F/FX & 850F/FX
Unity: Performance Best Practices
Pre-Production Testing Use tools like VDbench Understand the limits Populate the data first then run your workload Document your testing with timestamps, changes, etc Mimic your production environment as much as possible Don’t run defaults. They are not use case scenario’s Validate processes before testing. Unmap for Fast Cache, zeroing when reusing disk and turn … Continue reading Unity: Performance Best Practices
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