Skip to main content

CXO Mumbai: Storage virtualization concerns

Really, I can totally understand this. I will be giving a press conference in Africa in the coming weeks. I will address the issues that are bothering the IT managers and CEOs/CIOs the most. The problem is pretty clear: A pretty new data center suddenly has to undergo changes: blades, virtualization, desktop virtualization are great new technologies BUT they do make you think before you start revamping your data center. I am not saying that it is not possible, its just that you ought to watch out for the "proverbial pitfalls!"

Today's typical data center houses equipment from many large yet independent server and storage systems. There are also servers running a variety of operating systems with some storage attached. Many of these servers run a single application, and in some cases, these have been built into distinct and separate silos, resulting in hundreds and sometimes thousands of these silos in the data center of today's larger enterprises.

This proliferation has introduced considerable physical complexity and made the management of devices and data very difficult for IT Managers.

The solution to this complexity is to introduce virtualization technology at the server, networking, and the storage layer within the infrastructure fabric.


Read on...
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Security: VMware Workstation 6 vulnerability

vulnerable software: VMware Workstation 6.0 for Windows, possible some other VMware products as well type of vulnerability: DoS, potential privilege escalation I found a vulnerability in VMware Workstation 6.0 which allows an unprivileged user in the host OS to crash the system and potentially run arbitrary code with kernel privileges. The issue is in the vmstor-60 driver, which is supposed to mount VMware images within the host OS. When sending the IOCTL code FsSetVoleInformation with subcode FsSetFileInformation with a large buffer and underreporting its size to at max 1024 bytes, it will underrun and potentially execute arbitrary code. Security focus
Post a Comment
Read more

Splunk that!

Saw this advert on Slashdot and went on to look for it and found the tour pretty neat to look at. Check out the demo too! So why would I need it? WHY NOT? I'd say. As an organization grows , new services, new data comes by, new logs start accumulating on the servers and it becomes increasingly difficult to look at all those logs, leave alone that you'd have time to read them and who cares about analysis as the time to look for those log files already makes your day, isn't it? Well a solution like this is a cool option to have your sysadmins/operators look at ONE PLACE and thus you don't have your administrators lurking around in your physical servers and *accidentally* messing up things there. Go ahead and give it a shot by downloading it and testing it. I'll give it a shot myself! Ok so I went ahead and installed it. Do this... [root@tarrydev Software]# ./splunk-Server-1.0.1-linux-installer.bin to install and this (if you screw up) [root@tarrydev Software]# /op
Post a Comment
Read more

Virtualization is hot and sexy!

If this does not convince you to virtualize, believe me, nothing will :-) As you will hear these gorgeous women mention VMware, Akkori, Pano Logic, Microsoft and VKernel. They forgot to mention rackspace ;-) virtualization girl video I'm convinced, aren't you? Check out their site as well!
Post a Comment
Read more