Again this week we had a disk fail in one of our ageing 6140 arrays. no big deal, but once I'd pulled the failed disk, waited around for a few mins, and replaced the disk with a new one copybook didn't start of its own accord. I've seen this a number of times before, but... Continue Reading →
Storage market continuous change
The storage market has to be the most unsettled it's been in years. The wide variety of storage vendors, with good independents is a shrinking landscape. The power plays and buy outs makes for some very careful decisions if you're about to buy storage. My short advice is be careful and if you can..wait it out.
Dell buying Compellent – Virtualising Storage
Dell buying Compellent changes the storage playing field yet again. How it will all pan out and what will end up 'king' of the marketplace? Time will tell.
vSphere4 causes AVT on Oracle (Sun/STK) 6140
As each new vSphere4 server is brought online, this causes the 6140 controllers to perform an AVT.
Modifying or clearing Sun STK DACstore on foreign disks
Sometimes you need to make use of second user disks from other storage subsystems, without clearing the foreign system data from it, it could corrupt your live system.
Luke Darby 