So I have been on a job hunt for some time now, and I’m quite picky on what job to take because of a lot personal stuff happening which has put alot of strain on me, and that moving two hours away from Oslo to the middle of nowhere in Norway makes thing much more …
New job! Systems Engineer at Exclusive Networks (BigTec) Read More »
This is a step-by-step guide on how to setup a minimal Storage Spaces direct cluster on virtual machines running on Vmware workstation. It is also meant to enlighten people abit about the functionality which Microsoft is coming with and what it is lacking at the moment. Important thing to remember about Storage Spaces Direct it …
Setting up Storage Spaces Direct on Windows Server 2016 TP3 Read More »
As I see that Hyper-V gaining more and more traction, I also see that we are in the need for better storage solutions around it. Now Microsoft has Storage Spaces which came in 2012 and introduces features like Dedup as well. Problem with the deduplication feature is that it was mostly aimed at VDI enviroments …
It has been quite a year, as I look back at it at the end of the year, I see that there has been a lot of new interesting technology emerging. One of the hot topic that has been in my head for quite some time is SD (Software defined) and Converged infrastructure/hardware. Now there …
Software defined Storage and Converged infrastructure one-size fits all? Read More »
Earlier I’ve discucced a bit on Software defined storage and how this is an growing market with new vendors appearing all the time. Some of the concept behind SDS is the ability to move features that have previously only been available to the hardware solutions into the software stack. http://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/software-defined-storage-and-delivering-performance/ Now as I mentioned there …
Software defined Storage? Dell’s got you covered Read More »
Yesterday, Dell annouced the launch of their next generation PowerEdge servers. This new generation contains a bunch of new servers. The new models can be seen here –> http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/w/wiki/7520.dell-13th-generation-poweredge-server-resources Now one of the most important new models is the PowerEdge R730xd server, now one of the nifty features here is that it supports the new …
I had no idea what kind of title I should use for this post, since this is more about to talk about different solutions which I find interesting for the time beeing. The last couple of years have shown a huge growth in both converged solutions and software defined X solutions (Where the X can …
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