Storage Archives - Page 4 of 6

Datastore Provisioned Space vs Free Space

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 13 Comments

Last week I was asked by a customer which datastore would be the best location for a new virtual machine. They asked because while all of their datastores were showing plenty of free space they remembered that I had mentioned…

Diskeeper V-locity 2 effects on Block Level Change

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

The product that I’m reviewing in this article is Diskeeper’s V-locity 2 product, which can be found here. This will not be a post about how much faster a fragment free drive will make your VM, instead this is about…

HP P2000 G3 SAS SAN

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 46 Comments

I’ve done several posts about the P2000 series of SAN’s from HP, but all of the posts had to do with the iSCSI or Fiber Channel models. This post is to catch you up on the SAS model and what…

EMC VNXe 3100: My First Look

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Justin Paul | 26 Comments

Last week I unboxed my first EMC VNXe 3100 SAN for a client. At first glance the VNXe looks much like the Clariion AX4, the only thing that is different (physically) is the front bezel and the interfaces on the…

Recipe for SMB Cluster’s Version 2.0

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 34 Comments

I’ve done several posts on how to design a cost-effective SMB cluster, but recently with the discovery of the HP P2000 G3 SAS SAN it has gotten MUCH more cost effective. While the HP SAS SAN is not entirely new,…

HP P4000 / Lefthand Node Migration

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Justin Paul | 19 Comments

First a quick background for those unfamiliar with the P4000 line. HP bought a small company called Lefthand, which made a software product called SANiQ, this product could be installed on a server with lots of storage and then the…

Veeam Direct Attached Backups with HP P2000 SAS

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 27 Comments

I’ve talked about the benefits of “Direct Attached” backups in Veeam before, but normally always in conjunction with an iSCSI type SAN’s. Lately, though, we have had a lot of interest in the HP P2000 G3 SAS attached SAN, mostly…

HP P2000 G3, What we really think

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Justin Paul | 58 Comments

I received a P2000 G3 FC/iSCSI combo array from HP in mid-December so I could do some reviews as a, sort of, follow up to the G2 model that I blogged about over the summer. I racked it up at…

Open-E SAN Synchronous Replication

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

Today I was troubleshooting some performance issues between two Open-E SAN’s and found some pretty interesting information for anyone who is considering going with this product. Before I get into what I found let me explain some background information and…

AX4 vs P2000 G3: 15k vs 15k drives

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

Recently I tested an EMC Clariion AX4-5 array and compared it to the HP P2000 G3 array. You can find that post over here, and after I wrote it I was asked to redo the test after installing 15k drives…