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What's your Storage solution at home? NASses

Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Alex and AJ discuss different Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions they had and what is important when selecting components.

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Ceph storage for your home? Why? Why wouldn't you?

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Alex tells about his endeavours with Ceph for his homebrew container solution on RK1’s. The outcome may surprise you.

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Interview with a NetApp Cloud Architect | VMGuru TV

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

A couple of months ago, Alex and I were talking about the ‘vMotion’ of Dimitri de Swart from VMware to NetApp. We wanted to know why anyone would move from a virtualization company to a ’legacy’ storage vendor. Luckily Dimitri wrote a rather extensive post on the whole matter called ‘ Perception is Everything ’. Still, we had some questions left. And what else could we do then ask the man himself? So we did.

Rapid VMware deployment with Virtual SAN Ready Nodes

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

Lately you hear a lot about EVO:RAIL. But EVO:RAIL isn’t the only thing in the deployment kit. There’s also Virtual SAN Ready Nodes.

VMware Fling - Services Virtual File System

Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

VMware release a new fling, a Service Virtual File System. Building on top of the FUSE API (Linux specific) and the llfuse library, Services Virtual File System (SVFS) aims to provide an easy way for creating a custom file system that integrates seamlessly with the native Linux one. Users are able to execute almost all operations on it, including but not limited to creation and removal of files and directories, as well as searches and read from/write to files. This allows the user to map just about any structure to a Linux file system, using the abstractions provided in SVFS.

Review: Thecus N4520 - Part 1

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This is an archived article. It was originally published on VMGuru . This article may contain outdated information.

Last year Edwin did a review of the Thecus TopTower N8850, a beautiful enterprise grade NAS with a lot of features. So when the friendly people at Thecus send us the Thecus N4520 to review it was my turn.

Your own SAN?

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:00:00 +0000

For everyone who would like to have their own SAN (Storage Area Network) at home but has a bit of a problem with the price of such things: Build your own..

By using an old computer, Linux, and iSCSI, this is now possible for everyone. Imagine: Your own SAN in your fuse box. As soon as you have disk space issues, you simply add another disk and ‘on the fly’ you have extra space on the connected computers.