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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.
WikitipDemartek Puts SSDs into ProductionWe have been testing SSD technology for quite a while in our lab, so I decided that it was time to put some SSDs into production at Demartek. Over the 2010 Christmas and New Year’s holidays, we installed SSDs as boot drives in the desktop computers of all our staff, as well as in our production file server. At the same time, we upgraded the file server to Windows Server 2008 R2 from the previous version of Windows Server. We previously upgraded our desktop computers to Windows 7 (64-bit) back in November of 2009. We opted for the Corsair Force F120 SSDs, which have 120GB of available capacity (111.79GB formatted), good read and write speeds, and are compatible with our desktop computer SATA II interfaces. Our desktop computers are currently using about one-third of the capacity of these boot drives for the operating system and applications, and our file server is using about one-fourth of the capacity of the boot drive, leaving plenty of room to add new applications... Read the rest of the article here or at the Demartek SSD Zone. |
Featured Case Study
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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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. | |||
