New Toys

Just finished installing my new baby @ work specs are

HDS AMS2100

Dual Active/Active Controllers
8GB Cache
16*1TB SATA disk's
16*500GB SATA disk's

The main purpose of this array is to migrate lower I/O hosts from our NCS55 and from our very expensive 15k Fiber channel disk.

Thanks to the Opensolaris Storage Sumit 09 for this pic

IBM to buy Sun

So I wake up this morning and turn on Bloomberg news to hear a story about IBM to buy Sun ??

Is this just another rumour we all remember the Apple to buy Sun one many years ago , will just have to wait if it's just rumour mill or serious.

Fabric Design 101

So when your creating your SAN Fabric and your plugging in all your hosts , remember your storage array controllers also need , to be spaced across your switches.

Otherwise you could end up with a single point of failure in your fabric , if your ever decide to reboot a switch for any sort of maintenance. A fabric should be highly resilient , and allow you to reboot hosts ( dual pathing software installed of course & low I/O activity). If you can't then you seriously need to look at your fabric design.

Climbing Goodness

Natalija Gros from Jure Breceljnik on Vimeo.