I’m on the plane on my way home from the Nutanix .NEXT conference in Las Vegas. This years conference certainly lived up to the high standard set last year in Miami, and should be top of your list for future years. Last year the big news was that Nutanix was […]
Last year at .NEXT 2015 in Miami, Nutanix announced scale out NAS services which was for Acropolis only. In version 4.7, which was announced at .NEXT 2016 in Las Vegas, this feature will be available on AHV and ESXi. Its pretty cool. Check out the official feature page here. Here […]
Day 2 of the 2016 Nutanix .NEXT conference at the Wynn in Las Vegas. This morning brought out a couple interesting announcements, as well as the delivery of some features that were announced last year in Miami. Acropolis Block Services is the most interesting one to me. I expect some […]
Dell recently announced the release of SCOS 7.0. SCOS is the Storage Center Operating System, which is the software that runs Dells SC storage line, including the SCv2000, SC4020, SC8000, and SC9000, with more to come soon. These are the products that were formerly known as Compellent. Check out the […]
EMC World 2016 in Las Vegas just wrapped up a couple hours ago, and I thought I would share my thoughts on the Unity product line that was officially announced here. What it is: Unity is the next evolution of EMC’s midrange storage array. It would fall into the traditional […]
I have both servers running in my home lab right now, and thought a brief comparison of the 2 servers might be interesting to some folks who are shopping for their own home lab components. In terms of acquisition cost, the servers will be fairly comparable. At times, you can […]
Dell released the Dell SC9000 at Dell World 2015 in Austin TX this week. The SC9000 is the new high end Compellent controller, a space currently occupied by the SC8000. Much of the messaging I’ve consistently heard around the new Dell SC9000, however, is that it is not a replacement […]
Here is a bit of a change from the usual datacenter type posts. A nameless friend of mine recently plugged her Ipod into a different PC that was set to auto-sync. It appeared to erase all of her MP3s from her Ipod without prompting or intervention. I am not familiar […]
Dell announced the SCv2000 series storage arrays back in May of 2015. I’m a bit late to the party here, but I wanted to wait until I had actually had the opportunity to integrate several of these systems into customer environments. These systems start at about $10k via the Dell […]
I feel like I’ve had to write and re-write this script repeatedly as I’ve needed it for various customers and tasks. Today I figured I would post it in case anyone else will find it useful. This script is similar to the Push2Tape script that comes as a sample with […]