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SME Stack V0.1, Part 3 – Storage Solutions
If storage is the key, shared storage the key that opens all locks. In the early days of file servers, shared storage meant a common file store presented to users over the network infrastructure. This...
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Installing: Xtravirt Virtual SAN
Today we’re looking at the Xtravirt Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) solution for use with VMware ESX Server 3. It is designed to be a simple to deploy, redundant (DRBD synchronization), high-availability...
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In-the-Lab: Full ESX/vMotion Test Lab in a Box, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series we introduced the basic Lab-in-a-Box platform and outlined how it would be used to provide the three major components of a vMotion lab: (1) shared storage, (2) high speed...
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In-the-Lab: Full ESX/vMotion Test Lab in a Box, Part 3
In Part 2 of this series we introduced the storage architecture that we would use for the foundation of our “shared storage” necessary to allow vMotion to do its magic. As we have chosen NexentaStor...
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In-the-Lab: Full ESX/vMotion Test Lab in a Box, Part 4
In Part 3 of this series we showed how to install and configure a basic NexentaStor VSA using iSCSI and NFS storage. We also created a CIFS bridge for managing ISO images that are available to our ESX...
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Sun Adds De-Duplication to ZFS
Yesterday Jeff Bonwick (Sun) announced that deduplication is now officially part of ZFS – Sun’s Zettabyte File System that is at the heart of Sun’s Unified Storage platform and NexentaStor. In his...
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