
We have looked at a simple iSCSI network solution in iSCSI Network Designs Part 1. We have kept the storage traffic separated from our data for operational reasons. But we are limited to 1GB/s and the port density of the switch.
27 August 2010
Network design, architecture, thinking, working. Tech.

We have looked at a simple iSCSI network solution in iSCSI Network Designs Part 1. We have kept the storage traffic separated from our data for operational reasons. But we are limited to 1GB/s and the port density of the switch.
I have hosted this blog on Media Temple after a glowing review by some other people. It is now clear that for the last two or more weeks, the web site is often not available as they are having storage problems. It works some of the time and not at others. Some pages are taking [...]
Admintastic 1. Term used to describe a system that was otherwise straightforward and easy to use, after a Security Consultant has ‘reviewed’ it. 2. Describing the ease of use of a Checkpoint firewall cluster, deeply sarcastic and derogatory. 3. Term for Change Management excellence.
Fantastic news! As a long time user of Blue Coat and Packeteer, I am pretty excited about this. The Packeteer traffic management technologies is a long way ahead of the Cisco queueing strategy, and the Blue Coat product set has plenty of features that hold Cisco at bay in the WAN Acceleration (previously known as [...]
wi-fi 1. Marketing abbreviation for ‘wireless fidelity’. Intended to convey a message of performance, quality and excellence by extrapolating concepts from “high fidelity”. Of course, wi-fi is nothing of the sort. Using IEEE802.11b, there is not enough bandwidth to do much, and the radio spectrum is so hopelessly compromised and overloaded its surprising anything works. [...]
A post from GigaOM on the divide between Network and Server Engineers and the use of mobility in Virtualized Servers. You know, I was just writing an article on this problem. When you can migrate a server from one side of the data centre to another with the click of button, your network capacity must [...]
I got linked from Dante Malagrino at the Cisco Data Center blog yesterday. He writes a good post on why FCoE might be a good idea. Let me just say I am not only anti-FCoE, I am anti-Fibrechannel.
My rebuttal after the jump…
1. web driver workshop that imparts product information and technology training. 2. overblown method of delivering product information that you can get by reading the brochure. 3. Marketing that makes sense to marketing people. Largely consumed by people who don’t know enough to read the manual, and should be on a training course. There are [...]
In a recent project I was required to use ActivIdentity ActivID for two factor authentication. This post is about my overall experience with the product and its poor approach to HA. While ActivID does work fine, and its tokens look nice and it works OK, this is not a product for any small or medium [...]
I use a lot of technology that is developed in the US, and, consistently, when they ship that technology to ‘rest of the world’ they pass their support responsibilities so a distributor. While this looks like a good idea, the service the distributor delivers is usually poor. Why is this acceptable, and as a customer, [...]

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