Tag: storage
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Storage Nitty-Gritty 4 of 5 – Backup and Archive Solutions
ReadBusiness Continuity Information Availability IA = MTBF/(MTBF+MTTR), where* MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) – average time available for a system or component to perform its…
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Storage Nitty-Gritty 3 of 5 – NAS and Object Storage
ReadNAS (network attached storage) NAS server is dedicated to file-serving. NAS device runs its own specialized operating system that is optimized for file I/O, integrated…
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Storage Nitty-Gritty 2 of 5 – SAN
ReadIn direct attached storage (DAS), storage is server centric and the host owns the storage. The storage is fully dedicated to the server that owns…
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Application I/O Characteristics
ReadThere are many unknown factors and randomness when a solution architect determines storage requirement for an application. However, this process should still be as scientific…
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Storage Nitty-Gritty 1 of 5 – Disk and RAID
ReadOn my trip I have been through several pre-sales discussions on storage. Therefore I’m taking this opportunities to write up a series of postings deep…
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A review of vSphere virtualization technologies
ReadThis post is a summary of VMware’s white paper Introduction to VMware vSphere. ESXi is the hypervisor (virtualization layer) on bare metal servers that abstracts…