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Always nice to see a customer saying good things

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 26 Mar 2008
This was originally posted here , on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog A customer of ours, John Wilder, talks about his experiences working with our iSCSI SAN products. Besides liking the ease of use and installation features of his PS series array, he ...more>

This was originally posted here, on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog 

 

A customer of ours, John Wilder, talks about his experiences working with our iSCSI SAN products. Besides liking the ease of use and installation features of his PS series array, he is using thin provisioning and snapshots too. Here is a quote from his post:

Here’s a real life example- currently we have a thin provisioned volume which is taking up 96 GB of actual disk space (the host OS sees it as a 500 GB volume), and we have taken 10 daily differential snapshots of this volume which are currently utilizing 1.36 GB of space.
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Some good advice from a newb

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 25 Mar 2008
This was originally posted here , on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog Chris, the blogger at FreeGarble has written a few good posts about his experience working with EqualLoggic iSCSI SANs. This one has a list of things to think about before installing ...more>

 

This was originally posted here, on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog 

Chris, the blogger at FreeGarble has written a few good posts about his experience working with EqualLoggic iSCSI SANs. This one has a list of things to think about before installing your first SAN. His experience with our product has not been entirely sweetness and light, but it's been pretty good, as his other post on a SQL Server migration attests. Our support team has smart, hard working people. He twice mentions the importance of asking questions and I'd like to add that our customers should always feel free to call our support team any time to ask questions. We like helping our customers plan their moves.
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Is tape dead? What do you use it for?

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 21 Mar 2008
This was originally posted here , on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog With SSDs coming on fairly fast and products like Dell's RD 1000 now available for removable disk drive backup, the question is what or why are you using tape. I really want to ...more> This was originally posted here, on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog 

With SSDs coming on fairly fast and products like Dell's RD 1000 now available for removable disk drive backup, the question is what or why are you using tape. I really want to know.

Here is the link to a BlipTV video where Marc Farley talks about tape.

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A star is born

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 20 Mar 2008
This was originally posted here , on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog Will Urban, one of the Dell EqualLogic team members has an amazing pitch around Dell EqualLogic disaster recovery for VMware environments. A video of Will from VMworld was posted on ...more>  

This was originally posted here, on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog 

Will Urban, one of the Dell EqualLogic team members has an amazing pitch around Dell EqualLogic disaster recovery for VMware environments. A video of Will from VMworld was posted on the Direct2Dell site this morning. If you are interested in how site recovery manager (SRM) will work, this is a great video to watch. Wow, Will, that was some fast talking, but not as fast as this guy. I guess you picked a bad day to give up coffee!
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Dell SSDs don't suck - they work

Posted by marc_farley |  Posted in Inside Enterprise IT |  Posted on 19 Mar 2008
This was originally posted here , on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog The blogosphere buzz about problems with Dell SSDs appears to be overblown, if it's not a case of mistaken identity. Avi Cohen of Avian Securities wrote a report about quality problems ...more>


This was originally posted here, on the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog 

The blogosphere buzz about problems with Dell SSDs appears to be overblown, if it's not a case of mistaken identity. Avi Cohen of Avian Securities wrote a report about quality problems with solid state disk drives (SSDs) in laptops where he claims failure rates between 10-20% and a return rate on laptops with SSDs between 20-30%. I've read reports that said he did not name the company, while other reports name Dell in quotes. There's something wrong with that. Whatever, people just assumed from all this that Dell has a quality problem with its SSDs. So I checked into the situation with the SSD team in Round Rock Texas and asked about our ORT (ongoing reliability testing), pre-installation testing and failure tracking. What I found out made me feel a lot better. Our SSDs are very good products and are showing the kind of reliability that everyone expected of storage with no moving parts. They are just as reliable as rotating disk drives, if not more so. A lot of things have been written and people have suggested a number of things that don't accurately reflect Dell's implementations. For example, some have written about the reliability of the state of the technology. Our SSDs do not use low cost, consumer multi-layer flash. They use high quality single level flash that has better reliability and performance (that's part of the reason for the perceived high cost). They don't have disastrous end of life failures from wear-out - instead they are designed to convert to read-only devices. As I mentioned, each device is tested for early failure tendencies to weed out weaker devices.

 A word about performance: Our flash SSDs continue to get better with each generation and our next generation SSD products will have performance levels that could exceed those of 7200 rpm disk drives.

Click this link to see a video where I talk about this.

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