I have now recieved my wireless usb nano adapters from China. They were bought from DX.com and is tiny, and believe me they are very tiny. After some small failures setting up these cards with static IP I found some help around the web, and this config worked for me on my network using wpa-psk   Read More …

Times have changed and times are strange Here I come, but I ain’t the same Mama, I’m coming home Times gone by seem to be You could have been a better friend to me Mama, I’m coming home You took me in and you drove me out Yeah, you had me hypnotized, Yeah Lost and   Read More …

I do see a lot of questions regarding Equallogic and IOPS, especially after the Hybrid arrays surfaced in to the public. The XVS from the PS6000-series and the new XS from the 4100 and 6100 series are those arrays I get an IOPS request for most often. But it is not so simpel to state   Read More …

I`m playing around with the new client hyper-v role in Windows 8 Pro ,and it seems like Windows is not just for the mainstreame user. The last couple of days there’s been a lot of writing for and against Hyper-V for the professional users. From my view Microsoft finally got it right, I do not   Read More …

Dell recently released the latest series of PS-series array in the Equallogic family,this release with the series 14 and 17 controllers adds 10Gbit to the 6100 and 4100′s. What’s most important with these arrays, is the addition of both copper and fiberbased 10Gbit connections. The copper is standard RJ-45 whch requires Kat-7 cabling, but together   Read More …

Here at this site, I will keep al my arcles written in english. It might be in a combination of both uk-english, and us-english as I get my influence on the language from both sources. Most of the time the blogs right here will contain some rather nerdy stuff about server, storage and networking and   Read More …

This is about Merging pools in Equallogic When Equallogic was introduced back in 2004 we had no pools to divide all the arrays in to. Back then all arrays was filled with SATA drives, and it was only with the introduction of the PS3000 series we got SAS drives. I do still believe most of   Read More …

A good colleague of mine pointed out a very interesting feature in the new PS6100 arrays, recently announced by Dell, the vertical port failover. But this is indeed an old feature….. When we worked with the old Type-1 and 2 controllers (the grey and the blue), you actually didn’t care where the ethernet connection where.   Read More …

Looking back in the mirror we need to realise that cloud systems have been available for some years now. Not always adressed as cloud system. In 2007 Sun had a system codenamed Honeycomb, an intriguing setup with several nodes sharing the data across the installation. What makes it an cloud solution and an private cloud,   Read More …

Where is the world going ? For the last 5 years I have been heavily involved in spreading the message of ISCSI for the enterprise. It has not been a easy stroll down the road in those 5 years. At the beginning no one knew anything about ISCSI, and only the brave on the edge   Read More …