I use my home lab to both learn about new technologies and to challenge my own biases on how things “should” be done. I have always used SATA drives to boot my ESXi hosts with and never gave it much thought that perhaps there was a better way. Then I read this post by Bob Plankers over at the The Lone Sysadmin and thought “Now that just makes sense, and especially for a home lab!”
My logic here is pretty si
Imagine a nation that establishes a colony on the other side of a vast ocean. The nation requires raw materials that the colony has in abundance. Likewise, the colony requires manufactured goods that the nation can produce easily with its factories. A trade route is established with a single ship going back and forth across the ocean. The ship loads its cargo holds with raw materials while docked at the colony’s
This Monday I announced that I had joined the team at Coho Data as a Principal Sales Engineer. Many of you congratulated me, and I thank you for your kind sentiments. This is certainly an exciting change for me!
I have been asked why I decided to make the change, and I can answer that question with two words:
Software Defined
Yes, Atlantis Computing has a software defined solution for storage as well. I am grateful
When it comes to enterprise class storage solutions you have a lot of choices out there. Not only are there a plethora of storage manufacturers to choose from, but many storage manufacturers offer a plethora of products from their brand that handle storage in a plethora of different ways. If you were to ask any of these manufacturers if their solution is the one that is right for you I guarantee that the answer wil
The first part of this series focused on what I consider to be the basic building block of all enterprise class storage solutions – the hard drive. In this segment I am going to cover RAID which stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The reason why I am focusing on RAID as the next step is because it is the logical combining of individual hard drives into a single virtual drive.
Note that I used the ter
