If you are following Cisco Unified computing solution, here is some good news. The latest firmware version 1.4 is officially support direct attach FCoE Storage protocol without require the additional SAN switch as previous version. Both Netapp and EMC are officially supported and certified to direct attach with the Cisco UCS without a SAN switch require. This will reduce the complex layer it require to deploy especially for those environment who are not FC users previously.
I found some very good post over the internet, you can refer the URL below for more information about the new update provided in Firmware 1.4
Unified Computing Blog
M. Sean McGee
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Unified Storage………Sounds new to you? or sounds familiar to you? No right or wrong answer here, but it had become the dream of every storage vendor to offer this to their client especially in mid range, enterprise and virtualization environment. I remembered Netapp was the 1st started this, follow by other competitors in the market.
What is unified storage?
A single platform support multi-protocol such as FC, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS, FCoE and etc. It also support file, volume and block level data access.
You will able to get the unified box from either Netapp, EMC and HDS in the market now.
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Mid Range storage is getting more exciting from time to time due to large scale virtualization and cloud computing adoption worldwide.
Today I had read through Virtual Geek blog about the exciting new product range coming soon in the near future with scale out architecture more than 100 cores for CPUs in storage controllers and more than 1000 Drives in total which call VNX. You can read more details from here. I am absolutely excited about this new product range which will transform the traditional mid-range or enterprise storage to the next level.
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I have a discussion about VMware vCenter Storage Plugin during VMware Hitachi boot camp today.
As I know EMC have EMC Storage Viewer, EMC Celera SRM Failback Tool & EMC Celera SRM Failback Tool and NetApp have Rapid Cloning Utility (RCU), Virtual Storage Console (VSC), SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure & SANScreen® VMInsight vCenter Plugin. I’m not going to discuss about the vCenter plugin features here.
Does vSphere admin really need VMware vCenter Storage Plugin?
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Storage de-duplication is not a new term in the IT industry. It had been a while since few years back. Many users are confused with this term. Same goes to the Cloud Computing. Every Storage vendor will claim they have the de-duplication solution today, but they are different from each others as we know.
General de-duplication solution:
- Primary SAN de-duplication
- Appliance target base de-duplication
- Host base de-duplication
- Software base de-duplication
I may had missed out some of them, but these should cover majority of the de-deduplication solution in the market today.
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