In my current role within Dell I do pick up a lot of info about customer systems. Usually I get involved when performance is lagging and customers are complaining. From there I have to educate both the customer and the Dell force, in how to size a Equallogic array properly. Denmark being a small country, Read More …
Do you need an guide how to use the VSS/VDS features in Windows Server 2012 when configuring a new volume. Use this simple guide, and avoid using the JAVA interface of Equallogic when creating new LUNS/volumes. First of all you need to install the Equallogic HIT/ME toolkit (Host Integration Toolkit/Microsoft Edition), which is downloadable from 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 …
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 …
These are very useful in my line of work DCB = Data Center Bridging FC Native Fibre Channel = Protocol FCF = Fibre Channel Forwarder (an Ethernet switch capable of handling Encapsulation/De-encapsulation of FCoE frames and some or all FC services) FCID = Fibre Channel ID (24 Bit Routable address) FCoE = Fibre Channel over 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 …
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 …
