Posts tagged Storage
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?
VMworld 2011 – what a busy week
Sep 5th
I was in Las Vegas for VMworld 2011 this past week and what a busy week it was!
20,000+ people in attendance!
I met many amazing people, saw quite a few new products, I enjoyed it 100%.
Slimy marketing tactics are insulting
Aug 3rd
Isilon – makers of what look to be a very cool scale-out NAS solution just sent me an email.
Now, I was expecting their email, so this isn’t an issue of spam at all (in fact, when they scanned my badge at VMware Forum I commented that I would be watching for their email, and to be honest, I said it to every booth person doing scanning). I was excited to see the message because I want to talk to Isilon about their product.
My received email looks like this:
non-existent person used in email contact
I responded to the message stating that I would like to talk to her about budgetary pricing and how Isilon may work in my network.
My phone rang about 5-6 minutes after I sent my message out and a nice gentleman was on the phone from Isilon.
When I stated that I had sent an email to a Deborah and asked why I was getting a call back from him, he, honestly it seems, told me that there is no such person by the name of Deborah Levin in the company and that this is done to give some personality to the message.
He could have lied to me; told me that Deborah was busy and passed him the lead and I would have taken that at face value. Instead he (seemingly) told the truth, that Isilon (and EMC as their owners) do this through a third party email service provider (all headers in the email are Isilon headers).
But he didn’t lie, and for that I look forward to his email for later contact with him, if I can get the bad taste out of my mouth.
Pertinent headers:
Received: from mail01.info.isilon.com (unknown [204.92.21.14]) by smtpgrey-2.iphouse.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2064F3D7667 for <my-email>; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 11:56:26 -0500 (CDT)
Message-Id: <1b53bd039cbe4772a93c38749f6a68d4@1135>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=”–boundary_10086078_b76909b6-4a0e-4dae-9655-32f63a61adcf”
Return-Path: sales@info.isilon.com
Received-Spf: None (mail.corp.iphouse.net: deborah.levin@isilon.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
So there we have it…slimy marketing tricks.
