Archive for September 25th, 2007
Sun Fire X4450 Server
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Sun have just announced a potentially market conquering piece of kit called the Sun Fire X4450 server.
This puppy is a 2U server that support 4 x Quad Core Intel Xeon CPUs with a colossal 128GB of RAM via its 32 Dimm Slots. (more…)
VMware & NSeries Support
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007VMware have just released an updated SAN HCL and it now offers full support for the N3000 series of IBM iSCSI based storage subsystems.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_guide.pdf
This is definitely becoming a viable alternative to IBM’s FC range of storage subsystems.
NFS Storage In VMware
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007I heard a lot of talk about using NFS at VMworld, but dismissed it out of hand. This was until I saw a demonstration on the NetApp stand, for which I found a blog entry, going over the theory:
http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-over-nfs.html (more…)
