If you are already a part of the EqualLogic fan base, hopefully you downloaded a free copy of SAN HQ 1.0 off the support site . Less than a year after introducing an already great product (free to customers on support I might add), Dell EqualLogic is getting ready to debut the second version, likely before the end of the year. SAN HQ 2.0's interface is still as snappy, informative and intuitive as the previous generation, with some added capabilities: Packaged Reports -- "Top 10" reports
Our storage interoperability lab team is taking a look at updating a boot from iSCSI document found here . If you consider the possible scenarios (four different supported array types and multiple supported server/NIC combinations across the supported OS's (W2K3, W2K8, W2K8R2, RHEL, SLES) you start to get a feel for the challenge of creating and maintaining up to date content across all potential Dell supported configurations. That’s where you come in. The Interop team would love to hear
For those of you who would enjoy a little balance to all the FCoE buzz in the industry, let me introduce you to Robert Winter and Gaurav Chawla - two of Dell's strategic engineers in this space. Read below for their take on the realities of FCoE. Thanks again, guys. Robert Winter Gaurav Chawla FCoE has been positioned by some as a future primary data center fabric and by others as simply a transitional technology. We believe that the ultimate position of FCoE will probably be somewhere between
Last week Dell EqualLogic debuted 4.2.1 firmware for the PS Series arrays, which you can download from the support site . Take a look at the release notes and you'll find there's some pretty amazing additions --and you didn't even have to buy a new array to take advantage of them. Well, unless you want to pick up a PS6500X or two (which I talked about here .) Here's a few highlights of what's new in the 4.2.1 release: Preemptive drive replacement Support for new PS6500X Support
The following post is written by Ujjwal Rajbhandari, from our Storage Product Marketing Group. There are number of discussions, blogs and articles comparing iSCSI, FCoE and FC. Many of them share a common belief that FCoE and FC are better suited as core datacenter SAN and iSCSI is ideal for Tier 2 storage or for SAN deployments in ROBO/SMB environment. That is because iSCSI is characterized as “low performing”, “lossy” and “unpredictable”. In this blog I will