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		<title>IBM&#8217;s XIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got a chance to learn about XIV. I was dragged into an IBM product presentation recently, so I figured I would summarize the one thing not covered on the NDA here :) What is XIV? Essentially, it&#8217;s a disk storage device that uses only SATA drives but gets a high number of IO/s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=24&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle RAC ASM on a JBOD- Mike&#8217;s question</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had Oracle RAC with ASM running in a RAW configuration on dual 32 bit servers running RedHat 4. I upgraded to dual qla2200 HBAs on each server and they connect through a Brocade 2250 switch to two JBOD disk arrays, a NexStor 18f and a NexStor 8f. I have set up multipath in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=21&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Linux sharing a JBOD- paul&#8217;s question</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 20:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Question about multiple servers accessing same disks through a SAN switch I’m trying to set up a Linux system for server failover where two servers (with SAS HBA) are accessing the same set of disks (jbod) through a SAN switch. First &#8211; will this work? If so, what software do I need to run on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=20&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow up: Gizmodo reporter banned for prank.</title>
		<link>http://opensystemsguy.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/stupid-gizmodo-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like the guy I wrote about last week that was pranking salespeople at CES is banned for life. Good.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=19&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off topic: Gizmodo acts stupidly at CES</title>
		<link>http://opensystemsguy.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/stupid-gizmodo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know you are young. I know you are irreverent. I know you think you&#8217;re cooler than a bunch of old stodgy sales people at CES. That&#8217;s no excuse for being an ass-hat and pulling pranks on people who are just trying to do their job: Click here to see Gizmodo&#8217;s account of how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=18&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barry&#8217;s question</title>
		<link>http://opensystemsguy.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/barrys-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via email: &#8220;When you are thinking about Disaster Recovery, CDP, do you assume that Tier3 is adequate, mainly because this is backup only, or maybe DR so hopefully not needed? How does your thinking proceed? Do think about your primary data at the same time? I ask this as a loaded question, knowing that anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=17&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gene&#8217;s question</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gene writes: question about SAN interoperability …2 windows 2003 server sp2 servers, running on HP proliant dl380 g4 each with one single port fiber hba’s. Servers will be clustered to run sql 2005. HBA’s are hp branded- emulex fc2143’s (Emulex id- is lp1150)…SUN SAN has both 6130’s disk array and 3510 array…we want to use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=16&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posting frequency</title>
		<link>http://opensystemsguy.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/posting-frequency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still here, folks! I have not gotten any questions lately though, hence the silent treatment. edit: I am, however, going to start answering questions I see in the search terms that people use to find my site.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=15&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defining tiers for storage</title>
		<link>http://opensystemsguy.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/tieredstorage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good series going on over at the Storage Anarchist&#8216;s page about defining storage tiers- if you&#8217;re trying to get some insight to better organize your own data, it promises to be a good series. Here&#8217;s the link to the first of four entries.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=13&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Offtopic: VMWare IPO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to digress from storage for a moment to discuss current events. In case you didn&#8217;t know, VMWare is going to become a public company tomorrow. I have been following this for several months as both an amateur investor and someone who deals with VMWare professionally, and I&#8217;ve been seeing lots of questions online [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opensystemsguy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1377130&amp;post=12&amp;subd=opensystemsguy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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