Category Archives: Storage

EMCWorld 2013: IOPS calculation for your FAST Pool

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Menno de Liège

Inside this post I will provide a calculation example for calculating the required spindles in combination with a known skew. No capacity will be addressed in this post, where I will base it purely on IOPS / throughput and apply … Continue reading →

Posted in EMC, Storage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

EMCWorld 2013: Without skew, no flash

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Menno de Liège

When you have a VNX in your environment, you want to use the most innovative features and disks that are available. People tend to say “I want flash”, but you can never put your entire environment on flash, meaning you … Continue reading →

Posted in EMC, Storage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cisco UCS with VNX and vSphere: Booting from SAN

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Menno de Liège

Last week we were installing a new vSphere 5 environment on a Cisco UCS platform with the EMC VNX5300 storage platform for a customer and decided to use the really cool new feature called “Auto Deploy” which makes it possible to use stateless … Continue reading →

Posted in Cisco UCS, EMC VNX, SAN, Storage, vSphere 5 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Cisco MDS with Inter-VSAN routing: Keep it simple!

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Menno de Liège

When working at the SAN level, or the storage networking level, you always have to watch the Domain ID, which represents the unique ID of the SAN switch that is a member of the Fabric. Anyone who works at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cisco, SAN, Storage | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment