This month I will take an objective look at two competitive data replication technologies – NetApp SnapMirror and EMC RecoverPoint. My intent is not to create a technology war, but I do realize that I am poking a rather large bear and an aggressive wolf with a sharp stick. A quick review of both technologies: SnapMirror NetApp’s …
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Most administrators have multiple monitors so that they can manage multiple applications with one general view. Unfortunately, what ends up happening is that your monitors start looking like a pop up virus—a window for storage, a window for networking, a window for email and a window for Internet. EMC and VMware brought an end managing …
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I recently had the opportunity to review some performance data from one of our client’s EMC Clariion arrays. I was specifically looking at the read performance of the disk drives during their backup window. I discovered a great visual example showing the effect of random IO on disk drive IOPS and throughput. The below graph …
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