Storage Strategy

File system using FUSE

I'm working on understanding and building a usable file system using FUSE(FIle system in user space). I currently have two file systems in mind that I think are useful. 1. Versioning file system 2. Gmail File system Any suggestions on what I can work on to make the project more exciting? An...

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

Is thin provisioning a nice to have or critical in your storage planning?

What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?

What is keeping you from moving to D2D2T backup solution?

Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?

Are new improvements in storage around power and cooling leading you to start factoring storage into your power and cooling planning?

Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?

Is virtualization causing you to rethink your storage infrastructure or consider adding/moving to a SAN?

Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about your strategy for managing your data in the future?

Do 10Gbit iSCSI and 8Gbit FC change how you think about this and your strategy for managing your data in the future?

Best practices for large storage device

My company just bought a two large attached storage devices for disk based backup (each device has 14 x 300 gb). Each device has two controllers, and I have two dual channel SCSI HBA's that I can connect them to. Before setting this up, I wanted to check with all of you pro's out there for best...

beginning SAN infrastructre for the company.

On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am moving to a SAN....