WHD2012.global highlights: 190 Virtual Machines running on 178 TB with HA Storage
Last week I was visiting the World Hosting Day Event in Germany as usual and I’ve wanted to provide you all with some highlights. Intel was presenting the innovative Romley ...
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How to recycle data
What to do with old hard disks? What to do if your company is going to upgrade its equipment? How to get rid of any useless hardware? However we approach ...
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A few words about DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)
We are sure some of you have thought about DRBD – about its use and operation. Here is some information about it – a few benefits, some drawbacks, tips and ...
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Public cloud hosting: how do they do it?
Recently we’ve seen an explosion of new ideas based on the ‘cloud computing’ concept, and the chances are that many of you want to participate in this lucrative market as ...
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Random vs. Sequential explained.
Very often, storage product users do not know what kind of performance numbers to expect in real operations. Why do storage vendors claim such great performance when measured by an ...
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How Much Storage Can You Squeeze to 4U?
Last week I visited WHD2011 (World Hosting Day) in Rust, Germany. As usual there was plenty of interesting news and lots of ideas on how computing is going to develop ...
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Shared storage for Linux servers – quickly and painlessly
How to provide access to shared data using Linux based servers and cluster file system? In this post we are going to present quick and painless way to configure the ...
Read MoreA Few practical tips about IOmeter
There are plenty of benchmarking tools available but storage professionals mostly use IOmeter. Unfortunately IOmeter is a little tricky to use. You really need to read the user manual first. ...
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