- SNIA's Storage Primer: SNIA provides a vendor-neutral overview of storage technologies, terminology, and architecture.
- Reconsidering the LUN: Chuck Hollis (EMC) defines what the LUN is, and what opportunities this form of virtualization can provide.
- Why all the fuss about Alignment?: Chad Sakac (EMC) discusses why partition alignment is important.
- Using Iometer to Generate I/O: Antonio Neto (NetApp) - More on alignment and storage benchmarking.
- Multipath: Active/Passive, Dual Active, and Active/Active: Stephen Foskett (GestaltIT) compares and contrasts common controller architecture and IO pathing methods.
- Solving a weird "slow performance" cloning issue: Chad Sakac (EMC) on differences between mid-range and enterprise storage arrays as relates to VMware cloning.
- 1000Base-What?: Stephen Foskett's (GestaltIT) overview of Ethernet network naming conventions.
- Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage: Vaughn Stewert (NetApp) discusses advanced storage technologies from a NetApp perspective. There are some excellent comments from multiple vendors here.
- Fibre Channel Over Ethernet: EMC's TechBook on FCoE.
- Information Storage Management: EMC's textbook on all things related to storage networking. This is an excellent reference for anyone interested in storage.
- Evolution of the Storage Brain: Larry Freeman (NetApp) discusses the past, present, and future of storage architecture with a NetApp-centric viewpoint.
Any good resources I missed? Link to them in the comments!
3 comments:
Nice to see you rounding up some of the better foundational posts out there on the web.
I've got two more posts along these lines that I'm always asked for.
One discusses the basics of storage caching: http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2010/03/storage-caching-101.html
The other discusses the different approaches to managing storage in enterprises large and small: http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2010/07/how-will-you-manage-storage.html
Hope people find them useful ...
-- Chuck
Matt,
I like this post! Very good idea to have it sumed up for newbies. Trying to find quality posts via google would take hrs or longer.
Thanks
Hi Matt,
Thanks for giving my book a mention. I've set up a companion site www.storage-brain.com for folks to voice opinions about trends in data storage evolution and have also set up a searchable reference library. I'll add your required reading to the library-
Larry
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