Posts by bdj

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

I've not used cloudflare blocking, but I have always understood categories exist to allow for blocking, or allowing depending on the overarching policy. I appreciate it may seem inappropriate, but in heavily governed internet feeds categorisation of sites is really useful for multiple reasons and the assumption they're only used for blocking is in my view incorrect.

Tintri terminates 200 staff, cash set to run dry in a couple of days

Sounds like you had a very bad experience. Tintri had some brilliant (at the time) features that no-one else (to my limited knowledge admittedly had), they had VVOLs type support before VMware introduced the VVOL concept.

Per VM QoS with visibility to where latency was introduced (ESXi Kernel, Host Adapter, Network or Array).

Per VM replication and snapshoting.

99% IO served from SSD (Flash).

Good rates of de-duplication.

The initial issue for me was they were NFS and VMware only initially, then adapted SMB for Windows support but very simple and powerful arrays non the less. Hopefully someone will buy the technology and keep it alive.

VMware-Dell integration kicks off with on-prem VDI-and-PC-as-a-service

Re: Thin Client Add-On

There's quite a few reasons for hybrid solutions, it really depends upon how you are consuming VDI and the reasons for VDI in the first place. Local machine resources can be overall more appropriate alternative for single use / limited applications stacks for example application that have licensing which isn't aligned to VDI.

Google Chrome deletes Backspace

Re: Long overdue

This causes instability on my machine, perhaps google should look at fixing this as well.

Dropbox slips 500PB into its Magic Pocket, not spread over AWS

Out of interest, and as I'll let someone else do the googlefu but what impact does this have to AWS and it's offerings? 500PB seems like a awful lot of lost business?

Where VSAN doesn't shine: Sources explain EMC's ScaleIO purpose

Re: Da phuq?

ScaleIO works across multi-platforms; with most mainstream OS capable of hosting volumes from a ScaleIO cluster, or contributing storage to ScaleIO clusters or both if you so desired.

'Marshmallow' picked as moniker for Android 6.0

Re: Well, it could have been worse....

I wouldn't consider Marmite or Mayonnaise confectionery, perhaps more suitably malware if we ignore the confectionery naming convention.

Shamelessly stolen from internet.

Cupcake

Donut

Eclair

Froyo

Gingerbread

Honeycomb

Ice Cream Sandwich

Jelly Bean

KitKat

Lollipop

Marshmallow

Cheeky upstart Mangstor hungrily eyes Fusion-io's pots of gold

Over-Provisioning Under-Provisioning Wombeling free.

I'd suggest the card is under-provisioned, the volume potential is smaller than the physical capacity of the card. Surely an over-provisioned card would be thin provisioned volumes, or is just counter intuitive marketing ploys?

Trying to sell your house? It'd better have KILLER mobile coverage

Kids these days.

Surely the only place a person doesn't need a "mobile" signal is at home, where people can have other more less mobile but permanent connectivity via the likes of VDSL and connectivity with VoIP / Facebook / Twitter via good old IP?

Even a twisted copper pair was pretty good a making and receiving calls, and even stretches into the great outdoors.

Hybrid upstart Tintri: Legacy vendors? We're eating their lunch

Tintri already offers pretty much all options of v vol, per vm replication etc... inside that single NFS mount so this isn't really any concern for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPEw59JKLu4

The authors calculations are also a tad unfair, given the original intended function of the device its a very much a specific use case device than an all purpose array where big numbers seemingly mean something to someone.

Remember the turbo button on PCs? New AWS instance has one for CPU burst

$aving$ for u$?

Doesnt this just allow aws to drive greater consildation ratios by forcing right sized vms to hosts driving their costs down to boot? What promises are there that boost speeds are always available when the vm may require it?

BT at last coughs to 'major outage' after broadband went titsup across UK on Sat

Resolution or Revolution?

Certainly wasn't just specific to BT's DNS server (or however they resolve it via the homehub 5). I was unable to connect to many public DNS servers for the duration, but googles services did work which would suggest routing is at fault.

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup

Default Server: BThomehub.home

Address: 192.168.1.1

> bt.com

Server: BThomehub.home

Address: 192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: bt.com

Addresses: 2a00:2381:ffff::1

193.113.9.164

> server 208.67.222.222

Default Server: resolver1.opendns.com

Address: 208.67.222.222

> bt.com

Server: resolver1.opendns.com

Address: 208.67.222.222

DNS request timed out.

timeout was 2 seconds.

DNS request timed out.

timeout was 2 seconds.

DNS request timed out.

timeout was 2 seconds.

DNS request timed out.

timeout was 2 seconds.

*** R

Future storage tech should KILL all-in-one solutions, says CEO

Local storage

DSSV can use local storage, or remote storage and I believe the only requirement is for a Windows Server to recognise it as a HDD so it can be a local disk inside the server, attached via SAS or at the other end of a building via FC/iSCSI.

DSSV is only a single point of failure if you have a single server, with a single pool of accessible to it. Volumes are built in DSSV storage pools and can be (but do not have to be) mirrored between multiple nodes in the cluster. Volumes therefore live on multiple servers and multiple disks, similar to how VSAN / ScaleIO functions. Access to these volumes is Active / Active with each node housing a copy of the volume can be serving live IO. This keeps the IO inside the box and local to it (but again not required). IO does need to be replicated though and writes have to be acknowledge by all nodes mirroring the volume.

So for everyone saying they use a SAN for resiliency and DSSV node failure is a data loss situation is not understanding the concept of it virtualising physical storage with a properly configured DSSV implementation.