Jul/080
NetApp OnTap 7.3 Released
A major release for NetApp posted to the NOW site today, OnTap 7.3. This is a major performance release for NetApp as it starts to take advantage of the powerful 64-bit cores that NetApp has in their lineup of products.
For those of you that have a NOW account:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel73/html/ontap/rnote/frameset.html
Jul/080
Blog Change in Direction
I’m going to start to change things around. This blog will become more of a datacenter infrastructure site rather than a SMS/ConfigMgr/Scripting site. I’m going to change my focus on to storage, fiberchannel/ethernet storage networks, datacenter design trends, and high-level project overviews.
I still haven’t found alot of time to keep this up to date. but i’m going to try in the future to at least post one blog a week. Respond to this post with comments on anything you’d like expained and i’ll try to use those as topics to proceed.
Jul/082
Storage resource management (SRM) – Products
storage resource management products are hard to find. i’ve compiled a list (in no specific order) of products i’ve found. If you have any others to add please do!! it’s actually been quite difficult to uncover some of the more advanced automation and storage management products.
Storage resource management (SRM):
Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators.
Functions of an SRM program include data storage, data collection, data backup, data recovery, SAN performance analysis, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, forecasting of future needs, maintenance of activity logs, user authentication, protection from hackers and worms, and management of network expansion. An SRM solution may be offered as a stand-alone product, or as part of an integrated program suite.
