Back in January I wrote a blog about emerging Ethernet standards that are converging Ethernet, Fibre Channel and virtualization. During one of HP's recent tech days they had a session on all of these new standards, their ratification status, and how they will apply to HP products. Even if you...
Today in my vSphere class a question came up about zoning a fibre channel SAN. Best practices from most storage vendors and security specialists recommends WWN single initiator/single target zoning. What the heck does that mean? First, it means a lot of zones--they multiply like bunnies! An initiator is your...
Today I attended a killer session at VMworld 2009 on getting the most performance out of your disk array with VMware. After the session, my head was spinning with all the new information and the realization that optimizing your vSphere storage can be non-trivial. If you attended VMware world, please...