The bedrock of storage is the disk drive, but an operating system cannot access disk drives without mediation via logical addressing that translates the physical characteristics of the disk — platters ...

I’m always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. From my point of view, we should have ditched the LUN ...

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday expanded its StoreVirtual virtualized storage line with a hybrid storage array, bringing tiered SSD and hard disk to its SMB customers and channel partners. The new HP ...

So I have begun drilling into how our SAN has been utilized at this point and I am pretty stunned how much wasted space we have. In total we have 12TB, and at least 4-5TB is wasted in inefficently ...

LUNs transform raw storage into usable space, accessible from any attached operating system. However, creating and implementing LUNs can be a challenge. In this handbook you'll learn what LUNs are, ...

I'm in a bind! I've inherited a bunch of UCS chassis/blades that connect to an EMC VNX5600 SAN. The blades are running ESXi 5.5 and none of them have local storage; they all boot from LUNs on the SAN.

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday expanded its StoreVirtual software-defined storage platform with new tiering capabilities and a new licensing system to provide partners and customers with more flexibility ...

With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an ...

No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as ...

You will need to use additional storage-area network control software to mediate the file system access, or you will have to configure the servers to use separate volumes on the RAID array. The two ...