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 …

In recent years Dell has bought a few compagnies, starting with Equallogic and then some of the most interesting in the industry. I do not know why we had to bid for 3Par, we’ve got Compellent which is actually a nice fit to the Dell storage IP. Equallogic is a fascinating product, I’ve been working   Read More …