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ATA Over Ethernet: As an Alternative
Apr 4th
New technologies, new toys — Oh how I love getting my hands dirty with them. Today I am going to have a look at ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) as an alternative solution to NFS in the role of a NAS/SAN implementation. We will look at both the server side vblade setup and the client side AoE kernel module along with a practical deployment setup which includes a convenience script I developed to make vbladed slightly less of a nuisance to maintain.
First things first though, what exactly is ATA Over Ethernet? Straight off the wikipedia page, here are the important parts More >
Raid Management: Know Whats Really Going On
Feb 14th
In today’s hosting environment it is common place for servers to have hardware based raid cards but what is not common place is having a reliable method for checking the status of the raid arrays. Few would question the value to data integrity by making use of raid technology but very few organizations and businesses implement the tools required to proactively maintain raid arrays, they simply hope for a DC tech to hear a raid alarm and assume the technician will handle the failure. The reality is very different, data centers are loud and increasingly server-dense so hearing a raid More >
