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OpenIO SDS 18.10

6 Novembre 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO! Announced during the last OpenIO Summit 2018, the new release OpenIO SDS 18.10 has been announced. OpenIO SDS transforms commodity servers into large object storage and compute pools. They build a scalable solution designed to grow as you need, that can handle from terabytes to petabytes. This Object Storage solution became Open Source in 2012 (with AGPLv3 license). OpenIO is a pure (open) software object store. Usually OpenIO SDS has a 6-month release cycle and now following the OpenIO SDS 18.04 released in August 2018, this new version version of […]

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Spinning disks stats from Backblaze blog

16 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesEach quarter, Backblaze realize an “hard disk stat” blog post with detailed information on (spinning) hard disk durability. Those reviews look at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the data drive models in operation in Backblaze’s data centers. As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives. Of that number, there were 1,866 boot drives and 97,770 data drives. A lot to have some interesting data.

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Violin Systems is acquiring X-IO Storage

16 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 3 minutesViolin Systems has announced it has signed a Letter of Intent with X-IO Technologies to acquire X-IO Storage, the division of X-IO Technologies that developed the popular Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) flash and hybrid storage array product lines. Financial terms were not disclosed but the transaction is executed to be completed within 30 days. This announce cames after few days the announce of the new Violing product XVS 8, confirming that the company is not only reborn, but is tring to get also back to the storage market.

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VMware vSAN 6.6 and 6.7 critical issue with disk-extend

5 Ottobre 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome weeks ago, VMware has discover a possible issue in all VMware vSAN 6.6 and 6.7 cluster, related to hot (or also cold) disk-extend operations. Applications such as databases report in-guest data inconsistency on a VMDK that has been extended while residing on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later. More information of this issue are provided in the VMware KB 58715 (Virtual Machines running on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later report guest data consistency concerns following a disk extend operation).

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Migrating from a QNAP to a new model

28 Settembre 2018
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Reading Time: 5 minutesYou can easily move hard drives from one QNAP NAS to another for seamless system migration while retaining all existing data. But this usually works if you are moving from an old to a new model. For example, users can migrate their QNAP NAS to another Turbo NAS model with all the data and configuration retained by simply installing all the hard drives of the original (source) NAS on the new (destination) NAS according to its original hard drive order and restart the NAS. What it’s nice is that this procedure can also migrate between […]

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Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 per le PMI

12 Settembre 2018
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDell EMC ha probabilmente un portafoglio di storage probabilmente troppo ricco e con alcune sovrapposizioni, a causa dell’acquisizione EMC, ed ero abbastanza sicuro che la serie di storage Dell PowerVault MD era destinata all’obsolescenza precoce per essere sostituita dalla serie Compellent, come del resto sta accadendo alla serie EqualLogic. Ma evidentemente mi sbagliavo. Dell EMC ha da poco annunciato una nuova linea PowerVault: Dell EMC PowerVault ME4. Come la precedente serie PowerVault MD, anche il nuovo PowerVault ME4 (nome molto strano) è destinato al mercato specifico delle PMI.

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OpenIO SDS 18.04

28 Agosto 2018
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Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on 24 July 2020, OVHcloud acquired OpenIO! OpenIO SDS transforms commodity servers into large object storage and compute pools. They build a scalable solution designed to grow as you need, that can handle from terabytes to petabytes. This Object Storage solution became Open Source in 2012 (with AGPLv3 license). OpenIO is a pure (open) software object store. OpenIO SDS has a 6-month release cycle and after the a limited preview in April 2018 (for selected customers), now there is the new OpenIO SDS 18.04 version. This release is a consolidation and maintenance release, developing the foundation for […]

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