THE STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION FORUM

Las Solanas Consulting presents Virtual Pueblo, a site dedicated to Server and Storage Virtualzation topics. The site is intended to be rich in technical information and best practices, with little or no marketecture. Vendors, Value Added Resellers, Professional Services organizations and other IT professionals are invited to contribute to the site.

The site is currently under construction, so please check back frequently as we will be adding new content rapidly.

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STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

White Papers and Forum on Storage Virtualzation Topics

NAS (Network Attached Storage)
SAN (Storage Area Networks)

NEW ADDITIONS

The Industry's First 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN

Available and affordable. It's the industry's first 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN Storage Array, and you can build it using ordinary x86 servers, QLogic QLE2562 8Gb Fibre Channel HBA's and SAN storage processor software from DataCore. For this configuration, we use a Dell R900 server loaded with 15K RPM SAS spindles. [Read more...] [Contributed by Tim Warden, Las Solanas Consulting, June 24, 2008]

How To Migrate NTFS Volumes From A LeftHand SAN To Some Other Storage Array

Ask anyone who's been doing shared or "SAN" storage for more than a generation's worth of hardware and they'll tell you. The experienced storage admins know to ask the question, the inexperienced discover the pain after the P.O.'s been signed. "How are we going to get our data off the old array and onto the new?" In this white paper we detail a step-by-step solution for migrating NTFS volumes off a LeftHand storage appliance and onto another storage array. [Read the white paper...] [Contributed by Tim Warden, Las Solanas Consulting, August 31, 2008]

TGIF — THE FRIDAY TECHNICAL DEEP DIVE

DataCore presents "TGIF — The Friday Technical Deep Dive", a one hour webinar focussed on SAN Storage and Storage Virtualization topics. Each week will offer a live demo of one of DataCore's advanced Storage Management and Virtualization products, focusing on advanced features and techniques.

TGIF: Storage Virtualization - A Demo of SANsymphony

Presented by: Tim Warden, DataCore Software Corporation
Time: 09/26/2008 02:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour(s)

This week's Deep Dive is an overview of SANsymphony, DataCore's Storage Virtualization platform. The presentation is intended for a technical audience with a cursory knowledge of SAN storage concepts. The presentation is given in the form of a live demo of the product's feature set. [Register...]

TGIF: Implementing True Business Continuity with VMware ESX & SANsymphony

Presented by: Tim Warden, DataCore Software Corporation
Time: 10/03/2008 02:00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour(s)

This week's Deep Dive is a demonstration & discussion of implementing true Business Continuity (100% Uptime) for your applications and their data using VMware ESX & DataCore's SANsymphony Storage Virtualization product. During the course of the presentation we will inject failures into the system (pull cables, stop SAN storage servers) and observe that our production systems stay up! [Register...]