Tag: Storage area network

• Shared Nothing Live Migration: Goodbye Shared Storage?

  This article was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection. Many smaller companies and individuals with home labs see shared storage – usually a SAN (Storage Area Network) device as the impediment to Live Migration.  In April of 2011 Microsoft released the iSCSI Software Target 3.3 as a free (and supported) download.  At the…

  Mitch Garvis

  January 7, 2013

  Uncategorized

  Hyper-V 2012, hyperv, ISCSI, Live Migration, Shared Nothing Live Migration, Storage area network, Virtual machine

• When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!

  Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40?  While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive.  Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term,…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 4, 2012

  Storage, VHD Files, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Cluster Shared Volumes, Hyper-V, Hyper-V 2012, Microsoft, Storage area network, Terabyte, VHD, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012

• Virtual Hard Disks: Best Practices for dynamic / thin provisioned disks and other stories…

    Virtual environments offer us many new options with regard to storage.  Whether you are using Hyper-V or VMware, a few of the options (and recommendations) are the same, even when the terms are different. One of the options I am often asked about is dynamically expanding hard drives.  MY first reaction is that I…

  Mitch Garvis

  June 21, 2012

  Dynamically Expanding, Raw Device Maps, Storage, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Storage area network, USB, USB flash drive, Virtual disk image, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere