Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage
Combining "An exchange and discussion of Storage Virtualization" & "Musings of the SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem Support Architect"
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th August 2009 13,792 views on developerworks Seems like a lot of water, in the case of Farley and Burke - a lot of smack ups - but it feels like smack downs to me... 😉 has gone under the bridge. Looking back at my first part work, some 24 months ago, it... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st August 2009 11,246 views on developerworks Yet another couple of weeks go by. July is our busy month at home and with family. 4 birthdays (including my own yesterday), 1 anniversary, and of course the start of the school holidays. For those that follow me on twitter and facebook, the Millenium Falcon... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 1st July 2009 17,738 views on developerworks These days I'm spending more and more of my time with customers visiting Hursley wanting to hear about our smart planet initiatives, how we can help to make their infrastructure dynamic and of course most of my involvement in this is around presenting how and where... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 27th June 2009 48,074 views on developerworks TOP 10 POST With the move to the new blog software, there is probably a bunch of you that found yourself here, not knowing what this post was going to contain - as well as my regulars that either reap the benefits of SVC every day,... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 24th April 2009 8,081 views on developerworks I've been head down for the last few weeks, getting a chance to enhance a chunk of code in the middle of the SVC code stack for the next release, the cache. SVC caching is based on an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache model with partitioning... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 29th January 2009 10,787 views on developerworks Seriously, where has January gone? OK, so we have a couple of days left, but it seems only yesterday I was feeling relaxed and rested after a nice couple of weeks off over the festive season... then wham... We are deep in the middle of a... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 14th December 2008 11,836 views on developerworks In part 1 of this series I covered the terminology of SVC. Part 2 showed how you would introduce existing volumes into a virtualized environment using SVC. In part 3 I cover the 'now what'... Making the most of it Once you have imported the data,... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 11th November 2008 11,497 views on developerworks In part2 of this "HiW" - How it Works - discussion of SVC, I look at how you can take an existing SAN infrastructure and Virtualize it. Import your Data Its likely that today you have a SAN of some kind. It maybe a couple of... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 10th Novembeer 2008 22,769 views on developereworks I thought it was time to get back to some technical content, and with recent blog posts, it clear that there is some confusion over how SVC works. In particular how the actual virtual to physical blocks are mapped, how they can be changed without application... Continue Reading →
ORIGINALLY POSTED 8th November 2008 10,944 views on developerworks Is it me? I was wondering, but I was glad to see 'the bod' agreed with me. SAN Virtualization, now I'm sure Cisco would claim the term, VSAN's, logical abstractions etc etc. Storage Virtualization, thats what I do for a living, thats what our customers know... Continue Reading →
Barry Whyte and Andrew Martin : IBM Storage 