http://techmute.com Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:27:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, NetApp announced a guarantee that customers would use 50% less storage than traditional arrays by going with a NetApp FAS solution.  Of course, the tightly-knit group of storage bloggers were all over this announcement pointing out the "flaws" with it.  Some choice quotes: StorageZilla (EMC):  "One has to ask ... http://techmute.com/2008/10/06/netapps-50-guarantee/ Blocks and Files has 3 articles up discussing IBM's recently acquired XIV... definitely worth a read if you aren't up to date with this storage platform. IBM's XIV - Release 1:  The current release architecture of XIV its components. XIV - Storage Presentation:  ... http://techmute.com/2008/08/04/ibms-xiv-analysis-blocks-and-files/ I spent a little time a few weeks ago configuring Cygwin into a usable environment for both AIX administration and storage administration.  The stimulus for this was a lack of command line history for symcli commands.  Our primary Solutions Enabler system at work is a Windows 2003 Server install that ... http://techmute.com/2008/07/25/cygwin-config-bash-emacs-smit/ Have you needed to consolidate and migrate a filesystem that is spread over 2 physical disks onto 1 physical disk? You can easily do this in AIX without even unmounting the FS. mjd@techmute mjd $ lspv hdisk0 00007690a14d9fee ... http://techmute.com/2008/07/24/aix-lvm-tip-consolidating-filesystems/ Barry Whyte, "IBM Master Inventor", has an article posted discussing what IBM means by "non-disruptive upgrades" for the SVC virtualization appliances.  He states that the upgrades involve no interruption to service or access.  Which is a fairly standard answer for what a non-disruptive upgrade (NDU) is... I'm curious what he ... http://techmute.com/2008/07/23/svc-upgrades-and-dmx-history/