Virtual Storage – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

Too many marketers and salespeople play fast and loose with words, but they're only hurting themselves. Improper usage is embarrassing and causes a loss of credibility with the people they most w...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/12/02/marketers-fudging-the-meaning-of-buzzwords-matters-to-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marketers-fudging-the-meaning-of-buzzwords-matters-to-you

Memory 1 is the next game-changer from Diablo. I've been very impressed by the company's offerings in the past, and this is the logical next step for them. And it ought to be absolutely killer si...

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As I mentioned in my previous post about Raspberry Pi power monitoring, I recently built a VMware vSphere "datacenter" from three Intel NUC mini PC's. One limit of the NUC is that it has just one...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/06/05/adding-a-second-ethernet-port-to-an-intel-nuc-via-mini-pcie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adding-a-second-ethernet-port-to-an-intel-nuc-via-mini-pcie

NUT is a wonderful and extensible power management framework, and the Raspberry Pi is an awesome platform on which to run the UPS monitoring drivers and upsd server daemon. Even if you're not run...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/06/03/automated-ups-monitoring-for-vsphere-with-nut-and-raspberry-pi-cheap/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=automated-ups-monitoring-for-vsphere-with-nut-and-raspberry-pi-cheap

Greg "EtherealMind" Ferro recently "mused" that it might be a good idea to replace PCI Express (PCIe) inside servers or rack-scale infrastructure with Ethernet. But this seems to be the exact opp...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/02/09/musing-replace-ethernet-pcie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=musing-replace-ethernet-pcie

Way back in the 1990's, UNIX admins delighted in upgrading from NFSv2 to NFSv3. Then NFSv4 came around and ... crickets. Now VMware has become the first major/useful/mainstream application for NF...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2015/02/03/vsphere-6-nfs-41-finally/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vsphere-6-nfs-41-finally

Hard disk drives keep getting bigger, meaning capacity just keeps getting cheaper. But storage capacity is like money: The more you have, the more you use. And this growth in capacity means that ...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2014/12/19/big-disk-drives-require-data-integrity-checking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=big-disk-drives-require-data-integrity-checking

On reading my thoughts about the evolution of enterprise storage, many pointed out that this looks an awful lot like the Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP). This is entirely intentional. But...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2014/09/17/rack-endgame-open-compute-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rack-endgame-open-compute-project

Industry watchers like me have long wondered when Cisco will transform itself into a full-line IT infrastructure vendor. This strategy was tipped in 2009 as Cisco barged into the server market wi...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2014/09/15/ciscos-trojan-horse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ciscos-trojan-horse

Top-of-rack flash and bottom-of-rack disk makes a ton of sense in a world of virtualized, distributed storage. It fits with enterprise paradigms yet delivers real architectural change that could ...

https://blog.fosketts.net/2014/09/03/rack-endgame-storage-architecture-data-center/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rack-endgame-storage-architecture-data-center