Tim Phillips blog

Hi there! Today I`d like to offer you an article about high availability technologies, provided by VmWare: vMotion, HA and FT. vMotion – the technology allows to transfer VMs from one physical server to another while it`s working (analog of Live Migration in Windows Server Hyper-V R2). Also need to mention that vMotion uses advantages of [...]

Hi there! Sorry, got no time to write. Few days ago I got an idea about series of Versus articles. The first one is VmWare ESXi vs MS Hyper-V, and the second one will be iSCSI: hardware vs software.
All my thoughts about VmWare vs MS are available under cut. So,VmWare`s footprint – 100 Mb, while [...]

Few days ago Jack Fergeus from openBench Labs published a very interesting article on using Enterprise Server edition of Starwind Software`s iSCSI target.  I`ve used free version of this tool which had some limitations in a lab for a few months, but now I have deployed it on a real network, and this article was very useful [...]

While having a datacenter discussion with a client yesterday, I was reminded that it all starts with storage.  After thinking a bit more about that statement, it really made sense to me. Thinking back to various client planning sessions for various solutions, much of the requirements, bottlenecks, cost and sometimes mystery revolved around storage. Computer processing, memory and [...]

So, lets start. I`d like to start from the essentials: what possible kind of storage systems exist there, and what differences are between them, and, of course, I`ll talk about their advantages and disadvantages. I decided to offer not a detailed text description, but an image description of each technology.