How is Storage Virtualization useful?

A Q&A with a Burton Group analyst:

Q: Does storage virtualization really reduce administrative overhead the way the vendors claim it does?
A: No, not necessarily. What it does is move the work from one place, the individual arrays, to another place, the centralized console of the virtualization product. But administrators still have to perform the same day-to-day chores such as volume management, data replication and migration. However, virtualization can certainly make your life much easier if you're running a mixed-vendor storage environment. In that case the only thing you have to do on each vendor's specific console is initial configuration, then after that you do everything from the centralized console.

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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

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

Virtualization Event 2008: Interviews are now live!

Mine are down here ;-) Part 1 Part 2 And the rest you'll find'em here.

A Q&A with a Burton Group analyst:

Q: Does storage virtualization really reduce administrative overhead the way the vendors claim it does?
A: No, not necessarily. What it does is move the work from one place, the individual arrays, to another place, the centralized console of the virtualization product. But administrators still have to perform the same day-to-day chores such as volume management, data replication and migration. However, virtualization can certainly make your life much easier if you're running a mixed-vendor storage environment. In that case the only thing you have to do on each vendor's specific console is initial configuration, then after that you do everything from the centralized console.

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