Posts by Millennia

Re: The security folks will say...

"With HCI, on the other hand, there's really no argument - patch it, do it now, and don't try and make excuses."

Except you can't....... https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345

I'm an IT outsourcer (Managed Cloud) and I DO care about my customers - but then I'm totally UK based and realise happy customers are long term ones - longest running one 15 years and counting.

I thought all this outsource to India shit was dead in the water now, never seen it do anything but cost more in the end.

Re: Bleedin obvious advice

"The ever increasing problem is that the 'smart' meters that are being forced on people by the government don't have that security and are ripe for the script kiddies to take over."

Can you imagine a botnet of over 20 million devices simultaneously doing a DDoS and taking out the power grid? Brave new world, coming nowhere near me if I can help it. I keep changing suppliers every year so they lose track of whether I have a smart meter or not. I had heard that if your gas smart meter loses Internet connectivity it cuts you off!

They can keep the Internet of Shit

Re: Losing the dell OEM and now this

ROFL - I was in the room when they announced a 5 year extension to Dell deal.

Quit with the FUD, eh?

Re: i think

Nate you are way off the mark with regard to both SuperMicro and Nutanix.

Supermicro is very obviously the base for a lot of different branded products out there and is the bedrock upon which Nutanix solutions are built. I have built HA all flash storage solutions on SuperMicro equipment and see no different failure rate than I do on any other piece of hardware.

If we are talking remote management I just lost a Dell server when it didn't come back from a VMware update. No matter, I thought, I'll just hop on the DRAC and see what's going on - except the DRAC had crashed as well.

Physical presence required!

On the charge that Nutanix isn't mission critical, well I say HA! Their biggest deployment to date is over 2000 nodes for a single customer and believe me if you knew what that deployment was you'd rewrite the definition of mission critical.

Re: Anyone can create a "for dummies" book

The really stupid thing is Nutanix created one with exactly the same title 3 months ago, so as a marketing ploy this makes Big Blue look well and truly behind the curve.

Blimey you have got it bad....

So this broken OSI model type protocol therefore can't possibly work in the real world then obviously? The 1300+ customers have just been hoodwinked into thinking their storage works phenomenally well...

So beating Isilon in it's own niche space of media delivery was a fluke? A combination of Coraid and Nexenta hammering NetApp Filers is just a figment of the testers imagination?

Measured throughputs of over 1800 Mbytes/sec and 4500 IOPS from a single shelf of disks couldn't have happened and Coraid bunged ESG Labs to come up with those test results?

How VMware does MPIO is actually pretty relevent considering it is the biggest virtualisation platform, so when I build a iSCSI solution alongside an AoE one and not only is it way quicker to configure but throughput tests show AoE handles random virtualisation workloads much more efficiently and on the performance graphs I see more throughput.

Obviously I must have been dropping too many magic mushrooms lately and I'm seeing things.

So on that basis why don't you take issue with EMC, NetApp, Isilon and VMware and see how much traction that gets you? Coraid makes an easier target but it doesn't make it wrong.

I'll admit not knowing StarWind had an AoE driver as I don't know the product inside out, although I respect it for the reviews it has had - looks a great product.

Coraid's biggest sin was growing organically in the Linux space, because it has lost a lot of years when it could have been providing the things you found missing when you tried out AoE. That delay will hurt the progression of AoE in the face of iSCSI evangelists. My future doesn't rely on the success or failure of AoE so I'm happy to sit it out and see what develops.

Not Enterprise ready.... yeah

"Now that we know AoE is ATA over Ethernet, isn't broadly supported, lacks enterprise features, isn't generally supported and generally isn't Enterprise Ready, let's talk about the other two."

At what point would you consider something "Enterprise Ready" then? Does the fact that an AoE SAN serves as the backbone for one of the largest private clouds in the world for a US Govt Agency, 2 Petabytes and > 40,000 VMware nodes, not make that statement look just a little rash? Or perhaps customers like NASA, the Human Genome Project and various large acedemic institutions for the HPC clusters, plus over 1200 others - mainly large multi-terabyte systems demanding high performance.

By making such a dismissive statement you are missing out on a genuine opportunity to look at something different, for a cost that just might be the key factor if we go and double dip the western economies.

Perhaps you are also in the "never have a Dell in my data center" camp as well. If you look at the attitude to them 10 years ago you see a blueprint for how economies of scale can really disrupt a market.