Techie
Storage search reaching conclusion soon
Feb 14th
I’ll be receiving evaluations later this month from from Tintri (VMstore T540) and Nexsan (E5100 series) to add to my current evaluation of Tegile (Zebi).
The box from Tegile I am using is the Zebi HA2100EP. (BTW: Tegile hit a blog today via Search Solid State Storage. Congrats Tegile!)
I’ll be posting more come March, 2012 as to my findings. This storage evaluation is primarily for our usage in our VMware vSphere clusters (see our vmForge virtual datacenter product) . Tegile and NetApp both also allow for fiber-channel connectivity and all but Tintri also support iSCSI. We have an aging Compellent SAN that we could consolidate depending on which storage I eventually choose.
In testing, I’ll be measuring I/O, I/O latency, normalized throughput (putting each system on a single 1 Gbps link), recovery time during failures (drives, controllers), and monitoring/measurement abilities.
Price matters as well but I will not share the final results as storage quotes are always customized. If I get ‘list’ pricing from all the vendors then I’ll post those to be fair.
I’ll make Screenshots and/or movies of the interfaces for those that want to see how it looks.
This is my last round of evaluations and I’ll be purchasing one of the above or NetApp.
Searching for storage: Tegile
Jan 11th
I promised some followers of this blog that I’d post some thoughts on what I am looking at and the progress of my evaluations here at ipHouse for our virtualization products.
Unfortunately we also did an office move in the intervening period and guess who didn’t have time?
Oh sandbox, you need to grow
Nov 21st
The buildup of our new sandbox for internal learning has run for a week and already we are running out of resources.
Five old Dell PE1430 with 2 4-core processors but they max out at 8 GiB of RAM. That’s 40 GiB total for 7-8 people. This is a little tight.
Digging through dead server storage(tm) I have found a few old PE1950 boxes with old school Xeon processors. Gonna see what I can harvest from other old servers in DSS(tm) and give these servers as much RAM as possible. And I’ll need to find ethernet ports as the sandbox requires 3 to fully operate.
Fun times! I am very excited to see my staff learning how VMware works, how vCloud Director does its thing, how all of this magic really is not all that difficult to digest. Hats off to you ipHouse employees!
Building a sandbox requires planning
Nov 14th
I mean it.
6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth.
This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
