Month: February 2009

Storage Questions Part 1

The project I'm supporting is looking at 'mid range' enterprise Fibre Channel storage arrays. As part of the investigation, I perform market surveys of leading vendors. After we narrow down the field, I submit a long list of technical questions. While vendor's web sites make their array sound like the...

Virtualized Networks – HP or Cisco?

I'm working on a server consolidation and technology refresh project which is pretty exciting. We are taking dozens of legacy rack mount servers and consolidating them into blade servers using VMware ESX server. Features like VMmotion and site recovery manager will likely make it into the architecture as well.This week...