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EqualLogic MasterClass 2012
On the back of the DSF sessions we are holding technical EqualLogic Masterclasses(es) around the country and soon in NZ too. They will be technical learning sessions with very little marketing fluff and there will be an introduction session and two deep dive advanced sessions. A lot of it will involve demos and examples of [...]
Dell Storage Forum Sydney a massive success
Those following me on twitter would have been sick to death of hearing me talk about it but the Aussie Dell Storage Forum (DSF) has come and gone and it was a bloody good day .. very long, but good. It was the best opportunity we have had to showcase Dell’s growing storage solutions and [...]
Some good EqualLogic reference documents
Some of the EqualLogic technical documents have been updated on Dell TechCenter. The Snapshots and Clones one is a really handy doc. Enjoy. Title Contents Published / Updated** Type Reference Architecture for a Virtualized SharePoint 2010 Document Management Solution This white paper describes the results of performance tests for a virtualized sharepoint 2010 document management [...]
DSF competitions and giveaways
Oooooh, chimpanzee that monkey news The good stuff, the stuff that makes you want to sit up straight and turn off Gangnam Style for 5 minutes. Competitions and prizes. Prizes and competitions. Actually, I don’t know why I am excited. I have been working for vendors for 10 years now so I’m never allowed to [...]
New Dell Storage products just released in time for DSF Sydney
The good thing about trade shows is new stuff, and DSF Sydney is no exception. Actually there are a few so I will keep this to the point. Hybrid EqualLogic storage array – SSD and NLSAS in the same shelf. Compellent FS8600 – Unified NAS for Compellent AppAssure 5.3 with Linux support FluidFS support for [...]
DSF Sydney nearly here – Wed 24th Oct
This Wednesday the 24th Oct the inaugural Dell Storage Forum kicks off in Sydney. I’m really looking forward to it, and not just because this will be my first presenting job in front of a large audience (well, co-presenting). We have had 100’s and 100’s of registrations so far so if everyone turns out it’s [...]
(*#&*^$$^ Hackers blah grr new site $*%
Unfortunately the site got hacked again. Not sure how they are getting in, I changed all passwords including DB passwords, checked .htaccess and went though all the hacking checklists but they still got in. I tried restoring from backup but the backup was corrupted as well. DOH I have about 10 other sites that run [...]
Dell Storage Forum Coming Down Under
Good news everyone, the Dell Storage Forum is coming to Sydney, Australia on October 24th 2012. It will be similar to the DSF in Boston, London, Paris and Mumbai and will be a mix of futures, tech deep dives and a fair bit of hands on. It will be a one day event that will [...]
CAVA troubleshooting
This post is to help you troubleshoot CAVA install and running issues and to give you a set of steps you can follow to try and find where the fault is. 1. What is CAVA? 2. CAVA Considerations and basic setup 3. CAVA troubleshooting (which is really why I am doing this) (this post) Before [...]
CAVA Considerations and basic setup
This is the second post out of 3 about CAVA on the Celerra/VNX File. 1. What is CAVA? 2. CAVA Considerations and basic setup (this post) 3. CAVA troubleshooting (which is really why I am doing this) Between the first post and this one EMC has released the new VNX range to replace the CLARiiON [...]
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