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May 16 2009   7:16PM GMT

#EMCWorld 2009 is starting tomorrow, and I’m on my way



Posted by: mrdenny
EMC, EMC World, EMC World 2009, CLARiiON, Twitter

Well tomorrow begins my annual trek to EMC World.  This year I’m headed back to Orlando as EMC World is being held at the Orange County Convention Center.  As I’ve done the last couple of years I’ll post as often as I can during the conference both on here on my blog, as well as on Twitter.

This years EMC World event should be a blast and very educational.  They’ve got tons of sessions on VMware, and one that I’m really looking forward to on setting up Exchange under VMware using a CLARiiON for the storage.  This is something that I was hoping to get done before EMC World, but when I saw that session on the schedule I decided to hold off on our Exchange Migration until afterwords so that I could get some additional best practices first.

I’m also looking forward to the sessions that I’ve found about SQL Server on the CLARiiON.  I haven’t found all that many of these up there, something that I’ll be sure to mention in my eval this year as I would assume tha the bulk of data stored on SANs is database data, and contrary to popular believe database servers are not file servers and should not be treated as such.

If you will be at EMC World come on over and say hi.  I’ll be on twitter so shoot me a message or a DM or find me in the Web 2 lounge or the EMC returning attendees lounge, or the exhibit hall somewhere.

Don’t forget to check back here for photo’s of the event.  I can’t upload in real time as my phone doesn’t have a camera, so I have to wait until I get back to the hotel or the convention center to upload them.

Denny

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May 22 2008   3:37PM GMT

EMC World 2008 Day 3



Posted by: mrdenny
Encryption, EMC, Cache, EMC World 2008, CLARiiON, Billy Crystal

Wednesday at EMC World was a session packed day to be sure.

I started my morning with CLARiiON Rebuild Settings and Data which was an in depth look at how exactly the CLARiiON systems handle rebuilds, and how long various rebuilds take.  In addition we went into detail as to how the CLARiiON will not see that a disk is going to fail, and instead of waiting for it to fail and then having to rebuild it will actually copy the data from the disk ahead of time to a hot-spare then mark the disk as failed so that it can be replaced before the disk actually fails there by providing you with no point in time where your data is unprotected.

 Another session went through the changes to the EMC PowerPath product and all the new features they are building into PowerPath such as the encryption of data when it leaves the server on its way to the disk.

Another session went through some tuning tips an tricks for getting the best performance from the EMC CLARiiON product.  These include the strip size, cache settings at both the LUN and SP level. 

The night ended with the Billy Crystal performance.  I figured that the show would be funny.  I was wrong, it was hilarious.  Like everyone else I’ve seen Billy Crystal on TV and in Movies and thought he was funny, but in person he was probably the best comedy performance that I had ever seen.

Denny

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