Category: 2007
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(2007) Seasons Wishes to you all
ORIGINALLY POSTED 21st Decvember 2007 10,182 views on developerworks The house is feeling quite Christmas-e, with the tree and lights having been up for a few weeks, the collection of presents under the tree growing and the usual ‘spring cleaning’ sessions before the big day. One more day to go, and yet another working year…
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Deja-vu – Invista 2 – again?!
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th December 2007 7,792 views on developerworks Back in August I posted about the ‘Stealth’ announcement of Invista 2.0. It seems that our friends over at EMC decided that after almost 6 months, they’d try again and actually tell the world this time. I thought I’d wait till the end of the week…
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Vanilla Windows vs Embedded Windows
ORIGINALLY POSTED 5th December 2007 8,268 views on developerworks I guess I didn’t really get the message across in my previous post, well certainly not in the way I inteded from the emails and comments here. The main point I was making was with respect to using a “vanilla” Windows install as the base operating…
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Would you trust Windows to Virtualize your Storage?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 2nd December 2007 12,831 views on developerworks Back in June Chris Mellor stirred up a few people by suggesting that an unnamed source (I’m guessing someone at DataCore with a chip on their shoulder) was claiming IBM and HDS stole, or even reverse engineered the product to produce our respective SVC and USP…
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What’s wrong with Storage Virtualization 1.0?
ORIGINALLY POSTED 30th November 2007 12,255 views on developerworks I can’t help it. It seems that every post that Mr Yoshida makes strikes me as being somewhat questionable. I have much respect for how long he has been in the blogging game. I have no respect for his lack of reader comment acceptance – I’ve…
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Off Topic : Build it Yourself – DVD Recorder
ORIGINALLY POSTED 30th November 2007 12,722 views on developerworks About two years ago when our DVD player packed up we splashed out on a mid-range Sony DVD-R to replace the DVD player and the old VHS video recorder under the TV. This proved quite useful in finally putting those home movies onto DVD and saving…
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SVC 4.2.1 GA and 10,000th SVC Node shipped.
ORIGINALLY POSTED 17th November 2007 8,668 views on developerworks Today we are have made available IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Version 4.2.1 with more function than previously announced, including new VMware support, and also announced that IBM has passed an historic milestone by shipping its 10,000th SVC node. A press release issued today…
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SVC Performance Redbook Available
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th November 2007 13,630 views on developerworks [2019 Comment – is was from this Redbook that I became known as Barry “it depends” Whyte] Just a quick post to let those interested know that the [SVC Best Practices and Performance Guidelines] Redbook has just been made publicly available on the IBM Redbooks website.…
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Lowest Vendor-neutral Denominator
ORIGINALLY POSTED 15th November 2007 7,714 views on developerworks There is a big difference to “in the switch” network based storage virtualization and “appliance” network based storage virtualization. Hu Yoshida and Dr. Kevin McIsaac, seems to have forgotten that in my comparison series of the three approaches to storage virtualization, both the appliance and array…
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SVC 4.2.1 – Technical Details – Part2 – Addressability and Cache
ORIGINALLY POSTED 13th November 2007 8,111 views on developerworks Last week was a long one. The main SVC test-lab in Hursley suffers from the same problems that haunts most machine rooms – lack of power and not enough cooling. Thats not to say that we don’t have a lot of both, just that as the…
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 