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Category Archives: File Storage
Server virtualization vs. storage virtualization
One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization. Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Cloud storage, Disk storage, File Storage, Information economy, Market dynamics, Server virtualization, SSD storage, Storage architecture, storage economics, Storage performance, Strategic Inflection Points, Strategic planning, System effectiveness, Visionary leadershp
Tagged performance utilization, processor utilization, storage virtualization adoption rate
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HDS buys BlueArc
Yesterday, HDS announced that they had closed on the purchase of BlueArc their NAS supplier for the past 5 years or so. Many commentators mentioned that this was a logical evolution of their ongoing OEM agreement, how the timing was … Continue reading
Posted in data access, File Storage, R&D measures, Storage, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged BlueArc, Commodity hardware, HDS, Hitachi, Mercury, NAS, Titan, VSP
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IBM’s 120PB storage system
Talk about big data, Technology Review reported this week that IBM is building a 120PB storage system for some unnamed customer. Details are sketchy and I cannot seem to find any announcement of this on IBM.com. Hardware It appears that … Continue reading
Posted in Clustered storage, Data, Data integrity, data logistics, data protection, Disk storage, Distributed computing, File Storage, Infiniband, Information economy, Networking, SAS, Storage, Storage architecture, Storage availability, Storage density, Storage energy use, Storage Features, Storage reliability, Strategy, System effectiveness, Systems
Tagged Big data, GPFS, GPFS nodes, Hadoop, Hadoop over GPFS, IBM GPFS, IBM SONAS, ILM, Isilon, NSD nodes, SAS Drives, Scale out NAS, SPECsfs2008
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CIFS vs. NFS the saga continues, recent SPECsfs(R) 2008 results- chart of the month
When last we discussed this topic, the tides had turned and the then current SPECsfs 2008 results had shown that any advantage that CIFS had over NFS was an illusion. Well there has been more activity for both CIFS and NFS … Continue reading
Potential data loss using SSD RAID groups
The problem with SSDs is that they typically all fail at some level of data writes, called the write endurance specification. As such, if you purchase multiple drives from the same vendor and put them in a RAID group, sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Block Storage, Data, Data availability, Data integrity, Disk storage, File Storage, Storage, Storage availability, System effectiveness, System quality
Tagged Data loss, RAID 5, RAID rebuild time, solid state drives, SSD, SSD lifetime, SSD longevity, SSD reliability, SSD write endurance, SSD write failure, SSDs in RAID groups
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EMCWorld day 3 …
Sometime this week EMC announced a new generation of Isilon NearLine storage which now includes HGST 3TB SATA disk drives. With the new capacity the multi-node (144) Isilon cluster using the 108NL nodes can support 15PB of file data in … Continue reading
Latest SPECsfs2008 results – chart of the month
The above chart comes from our last month’s newsletter on the lastest SPECsfs2008 file system performance benchmark results and depicts a scatter plot of system NFS throughput operations per second versus the number of disk drives in the system being tested. We eliminate … Continue reading
Posted in File Storage, Storage, Storage performance
Tagged EMC VNX, IBM SONAS, NFS, NFS ops/sec, SPECsfs2008
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New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT
Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here). As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading
Posted in Ethernet, File Storage, Networking, Storage, Storage performance, System effectiveness
Tagged CIFS, CIFS performance, ESRP, File Server Capacity Tool, file server network throughput, FSCT, FSCT results, Jetstress, Microsoft, SMB, SMB/SMB2 performance, SMB2, SPECsfs2008, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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