February 27, 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Backup & recovery,
EMC,
SQL Server,
Storage,
Virtualization,
VMwareSo if you follow me on twitter you might have seen this tweet a little while back.
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November 17, 2011 11:11 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Class,
DVD,
EMC,
IBM,
NetApp,
SQL Server,
SSWUG,
Storage,
Virtualization,
WebcastMy Storage and Virtualization Class, which is available on demand, has started but you can still sign up for this great class and watch all the videos and get all the training to get you up to speed on Enterprise Class Storage...
August 8, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Dev Connections,
EMC World,
SQL Excursions,
SQL PASS,
Tech EdThe 2011 conference season is starting to come to a close. There are only a few large conferences left such as VM World, SQL PASS, and Dev Connections. Many people are currently working with their bosses to get sent to these conferences.
However while going through these conversations here's...
May 26, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC,
SQL Server,
StorageCaching has nothing to do with disk alignment. It sounds like your sysadmin should have gone to my SQL PASS pre-con. All the caching does is accept the writes from the host into D-RAM instead of writing to the disk directly.
Now if the LUN is aligned on the array by setting the offset on the...
May 23, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC,
SQL Server,
StorageYes, provided that your transaction logs have their own LUN from the other files as the write cache is enabled and disabled at the LUN level. By default read and write cache will be enabled for every LUN which is created on the array.
There aren’t to many cases where you would want to...
May 11, 2011 4:16 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2011,
GreenPlum,
SQL Server,
VMware,
VNX,
VNXeYesterday was EMC World day 2 and it was another great day at the conference. I started the day a little late as I was out pretty late on Monday night at a party. I was abe to great some great sessions in during the day however.
The first session that I hit was "SQL Server on VMware -...
May 10, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2011,
SQL ServerSo today was the first official day of EMC world. I had a great time meeting some fantastic people like Chuck Hollis from EMC.
There were also some fantastic sessions. This year EMC is doing something new and putting the sessions online through an iPad app as well as putting them on their...
May 9, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2011So today began EMC World 2011. It started in true EMC style with a great party, sponsored by UniSys. The party was held at the Hotel pool which seems a little strange but EMC made it work. It was a little windy last night, apparently not even EMC can control the weather.
I met some great...
May 2, 2011 2:00 PM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
EMC World,
EMC World 2011So this year EMC World is back in Las Vegas, and I'm damn happy that I'm going again. Instead of taking the quick flight from Ontario to Las Vegas like I normally word, I'll be getting there a little differently, I'll be riding my motorcycle.
As I can only...
