Comments on: Storage Basics – Part I: An Introduction http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=storage-basics-part-i-intro VMware News, Views, & How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend Thu, 10 May 2012 22:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Linkshttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-2503 Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Links Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:59:16 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-2503 [...] for Deployment (VMware) vSphere Storage: Features and Enhancements (Professional VMware) Storage Basics - Part I: An Introduction (VM Today) Storage Basics - Part II: IOPS (VM Today) Storage Basics - Part III: RAID (VM Today) [...] [...] for Deployment (VMware) vSphere Storage: Features and Enhancements (Professional VMware) Storage Basics – Part I: An Introduction (VM Today) Storage Basics – Part II: IOPS (VM Today) Storage Basics – Part III: RAID (VM Today) [...]

]]> By: Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions | The world of Marc O'Polo – Bloghttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-2200 Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions | The world of Marc O'Polo – Blog Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:26:18 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-2200 [...] Storage Basics – Part I: An Introduction [...] [...] Storage Basics – Part I: An Introduction [...]

]]> By: Storage, it actually needs to be understood! | Technical Trickeryhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-837 Storage, it actually needs to be understood! | Technical Trickery Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:19:59 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-837 [...] at vmtoday.com has some great articles on disk basics: http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-ii-iops/ [...] [...] at vmtoday.com has some great articles on disk basics: http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-ii-iops/ [...]

]]> By: cmdln.org (a sysadmin blog) » Blog Archive » Analyzing I/O performance in Linuxhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-669 cmdln.org (a sysadmin blog) » Blog Archive » Analyzing I/O performance in Linux Mon, 17 May 2010 15:41:09 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-669 [...] http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ [...] [...] http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ [...]

]]> By: Storage Basics – Part IV: Interface | VMtodayhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Storage Basics – Part IV: Interface | VMtoday Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:25:20 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-522 [...] parts I, II, and III of the Storage Basics series we looked at the basic building blocks of modern storage [...] [...] parts I, II, and III of the Storage Basics series we looked at the basic building blocks of modern storage [...]

]]> By: IOPS « Virtual Persuasionhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-483 IOPS « Virtual Persuasion Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:53:42 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-483 [...] http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ Categories: Uncategorized Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [...] [...] http://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/ Categories: Uncategorized Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment Trackback [...]

]]> By: Joshua Townsendhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Joshua Townsend Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:46:07 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-474 John - Amazing what a little data will do! I've had the same arguments, even when vendors come in and use their own tools to gather performance stats. Managers argue that the vendors skew their results to sell more disk. That's why I have worked hard on understanding who, what, where, when and how to capture and analyze performance statistics on my own (and write about it here). It's hard to argue with the raw data....15k disks are not always the answer, but don't go buying a solution without asking questions and preparing with some good data! John – Amazing what a little data will do! I’ve had the same arguments, even when vendors come in and use their own tools to gather performance stats. Managers argue that the vendors skew their results to sell more disk. That’s why I have worked hard on understanding who, what, where, when and how to capture and analyze performance statistics on my own (and write about it here). It’s hard to argue with the raw data….

15k disks are not always the answer, but don’t go buying a solution without asking questions and preparing with some good data!

]]> By: Johnhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-473 John Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:34:45 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-473 Sadly I know of several outsource/consultants around here that would argue that you don't need fast disks or large vol/aggr (depending on vendor) to get good performance. I argued with my now ex-boss about why 20 7200 speed disks were worse then 20 15k or even 10k disks.. and he still said ahh they wont see any issues.. some people are just dumb.. Now had the SAN solution been for file storage I would have said no problem with using 7200K speed disks.. But this was for VMs, which included Exchange, Sql and oracle! Still my boss insisted it wouldn't matter.. Sadly I know of several outsource/consultants around here that would argue that you don’t need fast disks or large vol/aggr (depending on vendor) to get good performance. I argued with my now ex-boss about why 20 7200 speed disks were worse then 20 15k or even 10k disks.. and he still said ahh they wont see any issues.. some people are just dumb..
Now had the SAN solution been for file storage I would have said no problem with using 7200K speed disks.. But this was for VMs, which included Exchange, Sql and oracle! Still my boss insisted it wouldn’t matter..

]]> By: Storage Basics – Part III: RAID | VMtodayhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Storage Basics – Part III: RAID | VMtoday Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:24:38 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-432 [...] on storage basics.  I’ve had some good feedback from folks in the SMB space saying that the first couple posts in this series have been beneficial, so we’ll be sticking with some basic [...] [...] on storage basics.  I’ve had some good feedback from folks in the SMB space saying that the first couple posts in this series have been beneficial, so we’ll be sticking with some basic [...]

]]> By: Storage Basics – Part II: IOPS | VMtodayhttp://vmtoday.com/2009/12/storage-basics-part-i-intro/comment-page-1/#comment-416 Storage Basics – Part II: IOPS | VMtoday Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:51:11 +0000 http://vmtoday.com/?p=284#comment-416 [...] Part I of this series, I discussed the important of storage performance in a virtual environment (really any environment, [...] [...] Part I of this series, I discussed the important of storage performance in a virtual environment (really any environment, [...]

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