The LUN has long been a bedrock of storage configuration for physical servers with LUN storage partitions carved out from Raid groups to provide logical chunks of capacity for applications. Now, ...

Providing storage in a physical environment required storage administrators to match LUN storage partitions to the performance and availability characteristics needed for each server. But with the ...

I’m always surprised that so many people still want to build their private and public cloud on logical units, served out by Fibre Channel SANs. From my point of view, we should have ditched the LUN ...

VMware ESX uses datastores, or virtual machine file system volumes, to hold disk images and snapshots associated with a virtual machine in your business. These datastores are contained on logical unit ...

I'm in a bind! I've inherited a bunch of UCS chassis/blades that connect to an EMC VNX5600 SAN. The blades are running ESXi 5.5 and none of them have local storage; they all boot from LUNs on the SAN.

So I have begun drilling into how our SAN has been utilized at this point and I am pretty stunned how much wasted space we have. In total we have 12TB, and at least 4-5TB is wasted in inefficently ...

What can the experience of managing IBM mainframes teach us about designing storage for public or private cloud computing? Plenty, it turns out… In my previous post, Designing Cloud Storage? Ditch the ...

Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday expanded its StoreVirtual software-defined storage platform with new tiering capabilities and a new licensing system to provide partners and customers with more flexibility ...

Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday expanded its StoreVirtual virtualized storage line with a hybrid storage array, bringing tiered SSD and hard disk to its SMB customers and channel partners. The new HP ...

No single storage technology stole the spotlight in 2005, but the year was nonetheless an exciting one that featured new products in areas such as data protection and virtualization as well as ...

With SANs and NAS becoming the norm for both the enterprise and personal computing (welcome to the cloud), there's very little that IT staffs can expect users to manage all on their own. As an ...