InterWorks Blog: Enterprise Storage
Seeing as we're the experts, we thought we'd share some of our intel. But beware, this level of inside information may cause extreme shock and awe. If you get lost, just fire up a flare - we'll come and get you.
Nov 11
2011
This can be regarded as a continuation to my previous post: "How to boot from iSCSI on an Intel x-520 mezzanine card (Dell Blades)."
Pretty much the only reason you want to boot from iSCSI is so that...[more]
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Nov 04
2011
The First Enterprise Demo Center in the Region:InterWorks, Inc. has introduced the region’s first fully accessible enterprise storage demo center at the Perimeter Technology data center in Oklahoma...[more]
Nov 03
2011
So I recently came across a situation where we wanted to boot a blade off of an EqualLogic SAN via the installed Intel X-520 10gbe mezzanine cards. With Broadcom it's easy, you just enable iSCSI boot...[more]
Jun 13
2011
During a recent install of a three-host ESXi cluster with an EqualLogic PS6000XV and redundant, dedicated iSCSI switches I noticed a peculiar issue with the number of paths to SAN volumes each server...[more]
Jan 29
2011
Have you ever wondered what the Letters on the Equallogic model numbers actually mean? Well here is a little sheet to help you out. I'm going to us a PS6000 as my example.
PS...[more]
Jun 15
2010
Dell recently announced the release of a new product in the EqualLogic iSCSI SAN line. The PS6000XVS (PS6010XVS for 10Gb mdels) is a mixture of 8 SSD and 8 15K RPM SAS drives to provide...[more]
15K, equallogic, iscsi, ssd
Feb 13
2010
One of the things I do most frequently when it comes to storage solutions is make sure that a client understands their performance needs. There are really only two factors in disk performance:
How...[more]
Jan 29
2010
If you're familiar with EqualLogic (and even if you're not), you probably know that every EqualLogic array has built in replication features to help you get your data backed up offsite should...[more]
Dec 22
2009
The Problem - Forgot EqualLogic Password
It happens to us all - well, those of us who don't configure their arrays with "password" or "qwerty" as the grpadmin password. There you are, an innocent...[more]
Dec 19
2009
PS6010 and PS6510 Series Arrays
After what seems like a long wait, Dell EqualLogic finally released the 10Gb controllers for the PS Series arrays. The new PS6010 and PS6510 arrays offer two ten gig...[more]
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