It's just a network
Yes, the N in SAN stands for network. Ethernet networks are not loseless. In a Fabric Channel capable network, you can't loose packets. You just lost data. And when a server thinks the disk has lost data, bad complex things happen. Packet loss in an ethernet network is expected. In a FC SAN, it's bad.

Queue Depth
Queue Depth is a term any knowledgable SAN/Storage administrator knows, but surprisingly often has no idea how the value actually...

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NetApp has quietly released their newest Arrays. Quietly. For some reason, they're not especially loud about it. Go to their homepage. Let me know if you see something about new hardware.

Why are they so quiet?

They don't have that much to say. They've checked off a box with SSD support (Holy crap finally, but from Samsung, not exactly the leader in Enterprise SSD). Hopefully now they can accelerate more than just read I/O. They finally updated their Processors...

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• EMC using Samsung SSDs?

Recently I read EMC snuggles Samsung NAND into flash drives • The Register

Apparently EMC is now OEMing Samsung SSD drives. Samsung drives have pretty reliably been nothing to write home about performance wise, and the size is rather less than the drives EMC OEMs from stec (200/400 right now, while the rest of the industry only gets the 200). The interface is also interesting, although EMC can just slap a paddle card on the drive to fit into any of their...

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First, a moment from Michael Hay, somebody important at HDS (Sr. Director of Product Strategy for Hitachi Data Systems):
Michael Hay » Blog Archive » These Are the Voyages of the Virtual Storage Platform
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In a move surprising nobody, Hitachi Data Systems finally announced their newest generation of Storage Hardware, the VSP. Why they didn't announce back in April when the majority of launch purchased USP-V's came off their initial maintenance contract is beyond me, but hey, probably a nice gain for EMC.

You see, they took their old name, and changed one of the letters to Virtual, because Virtual is the cool fucking IT buzzword. EMC did the same thing, they changed DMX to VMX, but...

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