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Is It Still Too Early for FCoE?

There has been some good chatter going around concerning FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from both Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac.  I had a chance to talk with Chad and Stuart Miniman today and I pretty much agree (go figure) with their thoughts, which align with Chad’s post.
For Varrow, in this context, we really see [...]

Is It Still Too Early for FCoE?

There has been some good chatter going around concerning FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from both Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac.  I had a chance to talk with Chad and Stuart Miniman today and I pretty much agree (go figure) with their thoughts, which align with Chad’s post.
For Varrow, in this context, we really see [...]

PowerShell Scripts for Deploying VDI Replicas

Recently Chad Sakac wrote an article on using some PowerShell scripts to quickly deploy VDI replicas.  As always, it’s a very good article but I wanted to expound a bit on what he has written and provide more instruction on setup and use.  I have had the opportunity to use and demo these scripts lately [...]

Read/Write iSCSI Snapshots on a Celerra

If you notice the dates on my posts you’ll see I haven’t been blogging lately but that doesn’t mean I’m not working on some interesting things.  Lately I’ve been doing a lot with snapshots from iSCSI LUNs on Celerras while playing with VMware’s VDM.  The Celerra CLI allows you to do some powerful things with [...]

VMware: The debate over storage protocols

I’m all over the place this week.  Tonight I’m at a cool little coffee shop in Providence, RI enjoying an excellent latte and some gingerbread while trying to ignore the woman on the other side of the room with the really annoying laugh.  Yesterday Joe put up another great post about VMware and NFS.  Articles [...]

Celerra & iSCSI Demonstration

Greetings from a Starbucks at the Charlotte airport.  I’m here waiting to board my flight to Boston for a week at the EMC office.  Last night I put together a quick video showing how to configure an iSCSI target and LUN on an EMC Celerra and then connect to that LUN from a Windows host.

Celerra [...]