• Isilon Training

    I’m going through Isilon certification courses today as well as joining a training class this morning. Starting to take a plunge into big data best practices. I’m also overhauling this website so please excuse the dust 😉

  • When you try to create shadow copies on large volumes that have a small cluster size (less than 4 kilobytes), or if you take snapshots of several very large volumes at the same time, the VSS software provider may use a larger paged pool memory allocation during the shadow copy creation than is required. If…

  • 1 Billion iops

    Fusion IO has achieved One Billion iops !!!  

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  • I just recently stumbled upon a new Youtube user called EMCProvenSolutions Looks like guys from EMC Ireland have put together a couple really good video series mostly on VMware and some replication methodologies. Go check them out. I love the Irish narration.

  • When it comes to deduplicating your data, a smarter approach is to dedupe at the source. Why wait until all that data gets to storage to dedupe it? There is a better way. In this video see how we to find a better way to use Mini Coopers as an analogy for data storage. Symantec…

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  • EMC recently launched their new VNX storage line which is a unified storage platform with one management framework supporting file, block, and object optimized for virtual applications. From that line they also produced a more affordable “VNXe” model for small business and remote offices. There are a number of ways to protect the VNXe including…

  • Error: Unable to connect to the OpenStorage device. Ensure that the network is properly configured between the device and the media server. Environment: Backup Server: Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 OpenStorage Device: DataDomain DD670 running 5.0.0.7-226726 Today I was configuring DDBOOST for Backup Exec 2010 R3 using a replicated pair of DD670’s. The DD670’s were…

  • How to troubleshoot EMC Avamar Event ID 114113 A checkpoint validation (hfscheck) of server checkpoint data is overdue.