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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Do you trust your VMware administrator?
I know the walls are coming down… but there are still many organizational barriers that can exist in IT. How about: The Networking team (who may possibly be allied to or at war with the firewall/security team) The Storage admin … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage, IBM XIV, SAN, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged IBM, Microsoft Windows, Unix, VMware, VMware vSphere, XIV
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Are you seeing timeouts on XIV management GUI 3.0?
I have had some reports of clients upgrading to XIV GUI 3.0 and seeing occasional timeouts connecting to their XIVs. This is annoying management issue rather than a data access issue. This appears to only occur when the machine … Continue reading
Zoning is not physical separation
I see this comment occasionally and it makes me bristle: “Disk and tape traffic must be in separate zones because they have different characteristics. If they are in the same zone this can cause performance problems or have other adverse … Continue reading
Portable XIV!
Now that IBM is shipping the XIV Gen3, a new version of the XIV Host Attachment Kit has been released: version 1.7. This new release brings in support the XIV Gen3 (or more specifically, XIV Firmware 11.0). You … Continue reading
Posted in IBM XIV
Tagged Hotfix, HP-UX, IBM, Load Balancing, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, XIV
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XIV Gen3s are shipping!
Three quick facts for you: 1) XIV Gen3s are now shipping. 2) Orders for XIV Gen3 are flowing in. 3) The XIV Release GUI is available for everyone to download and use. Links for the GUI are here. My … Continue reading
Mostly keeping it simple
One of the things I like about creating host definitions on XIV, Storwize V7000 or SVC is that for the vast majority of host types, the default choice is the correct choice. This saves me having to specifically tell … Continue reading
Posted in IBM Storage, IBM XIV, Storwize V7000, SVC
Tagged HP-UX, IBM, IBM AIX, IBM XIV Gen3, OpenVMS, Storwize V7000, SVC, VMware, XIV
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Here is a picture you won’t see in a Redbook
If your familiar with IBM Redbooks you will be familiar with the group photograph that appears at the start of the book. I was surprised to learn that there are quite a few rules on what can and cannot appear in … Continue reading
Time for IT to grow up?
Having worked in IT for 25 years I can definitely say that while there are nations that are slowly eliminating the gender bias (often way too slowly), parts of the IT industry lag seriously behind. You only have to read this article by … Continue reading
