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  • Isilon and Data Centers and Forklifts, Oh My!

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    Most of my blog posts are long and text-heavy. This one is short on text and mostly photos… Over the course of my career, I’ve been in a lot of different data centers. Some have been in interesting places, strange places, and some under frighteningly high levels of security. I’ve installed, fixed, and administered compute,…

  • EMC Announces Updates to BRS Line (Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker), Part Two

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    Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows: Part One: What Was Announced Part Two: What It Means (this post) Part Two:  What It Means [DISCLAIMER: My breakdown of…

  • EMC Announces Updates to BRS Line (Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker), Part One

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    Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows: Part One: What Was Announced (this post) Part Two: What It Means Part One: What Was Announced EMC announced the…

  • EMC Announces Upcoming Updates to Isilon OneFS

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    Today EMC announced upcoming updates to OneFS, the operating system for the Isilon scale-out storage platform.  The new version of the software will offer new capabilities including: Support for Hadoop’s HDFS 2.0 Object Storage Extended RESTful APIs with support for EMC Atmos, Amazon S3, and OpenStack’s Swift Support for EMC’s newly-announced software-defined storage platform, ViPR…

  • EMC Isilon Support for 20PB Filesystems

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    Yesterday, EMC announced that Isilon clustered storage can now support a single filesystem up to 20PB in size. When I read the announcement, my first reaction was “That’s a big deal.”  Then, as I read more and thought about it, my reaction changed to one of “No, actually, not such a big deal, really.”  An…

  • EMC Announces Joint Isilon/Syncplicity File Sharing Solution

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    Today, EMC announced the availability of a joint solution for Syncplicity online file sharing with Isilon scale-out storage. OK, you’re thinking, what does that mean?  What it means is the easy availability of enterprise-class private cloud shared storage.  Yes, private cloud shared storage.  It’s a subtle — yet very significant — distinction. To explain what…

  • Enhancement to VAAI-NAS in vSphere 5.1

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    I’ve already done a write-up of the VAAI-NAS features in vSphere 5.0, but one of the three VAAI NAS primitives has expanded functionality in vSphere 5.1. In vSphere 5.1, the NFS File Cloning primitive is expanded to allow array-based snapshots to be used for virtual machines and vApps being fast-provisioned by vCloud Director.  When vCloud…

  • Isilon Integration with VAAI-NAS and VASA

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    It’s come up on my VAAI v2 (NFS) write-up that today there are only two products that offer vSphere Storage API for Array Integration for NAS (VAAI-NAS) integration with vSphere 5.  We all know that more will be coming, and we all hope it’ll be sooner, rather than later.  Personally, I predict that Isilon will…

  • Two New Things (with More to Follow Soon)

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    Let’s call this a State of the Geek update… There are two recent new things in my life worth mentioning. Thing One: VMware vExpert 2012 I recently learned that I am one of 437 people who were awarded the VMware vExpert title for 2012. The vExpert program is something that VMware started in 2009 as…