Having been an EMC Partner a number of times, I’ve noticed a few things. EMC obviously doesn’t consider the literal meaning of “Partner” when they bring on Professional Service partners. They refuse to give them the access to the tools they need to complete their jobs. All you have to do is to log into …
February 2007 archive
Feb 27
TimeFinder Clone Part II
A user posted this as a response to “The Many flavors of EMC TimeFinder“ I felt it rated it’s own post. ——————————————— Q: “My experience is mostly using IBM Sharks. I’m now working in a very large EMC environment, foucsed on backup. I’m wondering if the TimeFinder/Clone’s cloned volume can be permanently mounted on another …
Feb 15
An observation….
Stupid people can’t help being stupid – they’re born that way. They go through life living in complete oblivion of the damage they are doing along the way. There is no cure for stupid. It’s the #1 leading cause of “Hold my beer and watch this…” deaths in the world. My only fear is that …
Feb 14
Documentation
Can you believe it? they actually asked me why I didn’t do more documentation during my year there. Let’s see. During the course of the past year, we designed, installed, implementated, moved, migrated, redesigned, reimplemented an entire corporate infrastructure. My part in this was fairly simple. Primary role: Storage Design (Clariion/Symmetrix), Implementation, Management Backup Design …
Feb 13
A Snapshot
This was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. When working on-site at the Library of Congress at the Independance Ave datacenter, we pulled back the floor tiles right in front of the switches and this is what we found. It took almost 6 months of tracing cables and pulling up the unused stuff …
Feb 10
Has anyone found anything good about Microsoft servers yet?
I’m not really bashing their workstations, i’m actually quite fond of Vista on my laptop. However, when it comes to servers, I view being in an environment where Microsoft is the PRIMARY operating system by a factor of 20:1 as a form of torture akin to having my finger-naiils pulled out or being tied to …
Feb 06
SRDF over what media?
Well – Tomorrow I should have data replication going between the two Symms. And it gives me pause. We’re going to be using SRDF/A for our replication. To those who are not familiar with the EMC terminology, SRDF/A is a “Semi-Asychronous” form of SRDF that provides consistency points in the data being transmitted without affecting …
Feb 06
The Fake Synchronous SAN
In response to this article on “EnterpriseStorageForum”:  Synchronous SAN Sets Fibre Channel Distance Record My Response: True Synchronous transmission works over any distance – if you can live with the latency.  The problem is that most hosts operating systems can’t. So different buffering schemes are cooked up to fool the host into thinking the write is …
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