VessRAID 1000i Series iSCSI SMB Storage Introduction

VessRAID 1000i Series

VessRAID 1000i features 2U/3U 8 to 16 bays quad ports iSCSI RAID6 subsystem that can function as a direct attached storage (DAS), in a storage area network (SAN), and with VessJBOD expansion, offering a comprehensive storage portfolio for business critical applications in hopes to protect all of your valuable data.

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090622 Arriving in San Francisco

Fox Car Rentals gave me the bait & switch. It’s been a huge inconvenience to travel around without a trunk or some way to hide my belongings. What a huge pain.

Duration : 0:4:51

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Optimization of Storage Virtualization – Part 1

To download a pdf of the slides for this presentation, see www.nytechsummit.com/courses. Part 1 of a seminar given by Michael Kestigian of Ingram Micro at the 2010 NY Tech Summit. Storage virtualization has been practiced in large scale data centers for nearly 20 years. With advances in storage media, software engineering, and service level delivery models, storage has taken on operational and management functions once found only in software applications. Maximizing any investment in storage means optimizing the use of these platforms to enhance information availability, data movement, and security. This seminar shares best practices in improving the return on storage virtualization investments.

Duration : 0:9:22

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Diskless booting Windows 2008 from an SAN using a ISCSI LUN over gPXE

Diskless booting Windows 2008 from an SAN using a ISCSI LUN over PXE

Duration : 0:7:16

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Storage Area Networks (SANs) 101

When I was a database administrator, I saw the SAN as a fancy, expensive black box. Well, it is, but in this podcast I give you some insights into that black box, tell you what kinds of things to ask about when moving your databases into that box, and how to refocus your SAN concerns from raid levels towards more basic things like response times.

Links from the presentation include:

Linchi Shea’s blog on SQL Server and storage:

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea/

Scott Lowe’s blog on storage and virtualization:

http://blog.scottlowe.org/

Stephen Foskett’s blog on storage:

http://blog.fosketts.net/

You can view this video in higher quality or your favorite portable formats at:

http://sqlserverpedia.com/blog/podcasts/storage-area-networks-sans-101/

Duration : 0:40:45

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Top Applications For iSCSI Storage

The development of iSCSI has centered on building a foundation for IP SANs utilizing virtualization for efficiency, simplicity, availability and flexibility. iSCSI technology leverages existing networks to consolidate storage and servers, while increasing capacity, expandability and performance. Here are some Killer Apps for iSCSI.

Duration : 0:7:5

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iSCSI SAN Mirroring

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Storage Options – DAS or SAN

Brian Henderson from EMC’s Center of Excellence discusses the best options to architect your mission-critical Exchange 2007 environment as it relates to management/performance, scalability, back-up, disaster recovery/business continuity, and archiving. Learn the differences between direct attached storage and storage area networks.
For more information go to www.emc.com/exchange

Duration : 0:6:35

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Def Leppard – Switch 625 – San Bernardino,CA 9/6/09

Cheap Trick, Poison, Def Leppard at the San Manuel Amphitheatre in San Bernadino, CA on 9/6/09

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iSCSI Storage – 2010

This webcast covers the iSCSI technology and industry standard as it stands in 2010. It also explains how you can use iscsi storage for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V with Live Migration or any other server applications that you configure for High Availability with failover clustering. You will learn that iscsi san can be build with SAN Software and any standard Intel-architecture x86 or x64 servers that you can apply in your IT environment and have a highly available and highly reliable storage infrastructure with advanced features such as Synchronous Mirroring with Automatic Failover, Remote Replication for disaster recovery, CDP/Snapshots and thin provisioning. You can also download the accompanying whitepaper “Why iSCSI 2010″ from the whitepaper section of our website.

Duration : 0:5:5

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