Tag Archives: san

Host based mirroring kills your storage network!!

Posted on 26/01/2017 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

System administrators are very inventive and lazy. I know, I used to be one of them. 🙂 Everything that can be done to make ones life easier is [..]

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Appalling state of Storage Networks

Posted on 29/04/2016 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 0

In the IT world a panic is most often related to a operating systems kernel to run out of resources or some unknown state where it cannot recover [..]

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Performance misconceptions on storage networks

Posted on 14/08/2015 by Erwin van Londen | Permalink 2

The piece of spinning Fe3O4 (ie rust) is by far the slowest piece of equipment in the IO stack. Heck, they didn’t invent SSD and Flash for nothing, [..]

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