I’m in Silicon Valley for Tech Field Day 8, and I just got out of a very cool session. The company is Nasuni, and the two hour presentation was delivered by their founder/CEO Andres Rodriguez. Don’t stop reading this blog post after this sentence, but Nasuni provides cloud storage. I know, that’s like buzzword-ese for [...]

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and I’m all out of bubblegum. I have an interesting problem. In My God, It’s Full of Files…, I discussed some of the things I had to deal with on our production application server stack, and I used the following picture to explain things: In that article, I briefly outlined my plan to reduce wasted [...]

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W Curtis Preston, at Backup Central has posted an interesting entry, “Is Dedupe to tape crazy?. Even he admits in the first sentence that, yes, dedupe to tape is crazy. But then he bumps the crazy-fest up a notch by asking whether it’s crazy-bad or crazy-good. You should read the article, but let me jump [...]

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After a week of wrestling with CDW and EMC, two weeks of fighting the storage array, and coming up with an ad hoc environment in something like 2 hours, I’ve had a rough go of this whole backup-site-activation thing. The latest wrinkle has been that although EMC shipped us the storage processor, the burned CD [...]

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It seems like storage and I never get along. There’s always some difficulty somewhere. It’s always that I don’t have enough, or I don’t have enough where I need it, and there’s always the occasional sorry-we-sold-you-a-single-controller followed by I’ll-overnight-you-another-one which appears to be concluded by sorry-it-won’t-be-there-until-next-week. /sigh So yes, looking back at my blog’s RSS [...]

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I mentioned this morning that I was having slow SAN performance. I said that I’d post an update if I figured out what was wrong, and I did. EMC AX4-5′s with a single processor have a known issue, apparently. Since there’s only one storage controller on the unit, it intentionally disables write cache. Oops. I [...]

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