October 25, 2009W 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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June 5, 2009After 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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June 2, 2009It 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 feed, [...]
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May 27, 2009I 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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May 27, 2009So, you would think that 12 spindles would be…you know…fast.
Even if you took 12 spindles, made them into a RAID 10 array, they’d still be fast.
That’s what I’d think, anyway. It turns out, my new EMC AX4 is having a bit of a problem. None of the machines hooked to it can reach [...]
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May 9, 2009Last week, I installed all of the equipment in our beta site. Due to issues with the power at my office, I wasn’t able to touch the blades for the month or so before they went in the rack, and the last time they were powered on, I didn’t have the storage array to make [...]
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