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Peer Incite: Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009.
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WikitipDemartek Adds its First Nehalem System to its Test LabDemartek announces the addition of the first of a series of Intel® Xeon 5500 ("Nehalem") servers to its test lab. This server includes seven (7) PCI Express® 2.0 expansion slots and will be used to test SSD, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, 10GbE, Infiniband, 6-Gbit SAS and other advanced technologies requiring advanced processor and I/O capabilities. This server contains two Intel Xeon 5500 series quad-core processors and 48 GB of memory, making it suitable for virtual server testing and testing of real-world applications. This server also supports twenty-four (24) 2.5-inch disk drives in the 2 rack-unit (2U) system chassis, suitable for testing spinning disk drives and solid state storage devices. This new server complements Demartek’s existing Ethernet networking, Fibre Channel and iSCSI infrastructure. Other recent additions are listed on the Demartek lab validation testing page. |
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Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. |
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Featured How-To Note |
Storage Virtualization Design and DeploymentA main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center. | |||
