[NTLUG:Discuss] [Fwd: USENIX Training class at UNT]
Ralph Green
sfreader at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 17 20:26:06 CDT 2009
Howdy,
I attended and I thought it was fairly interesting. He did not
discuss things like OpenFiler at all. His talk was more oriented to
enterprise stuff and mostly technology based rather than mentioning
names. There were a couple of reasons for this. He said he was trying
to keep the talk vendor neutral. I suspect it was also a slightly clever
way of drumming up business, because people might come back to him for
some specifics and he could get some paid consulting time there. I
don't blame him for that, and it is just my opinion.
The most interesting part of it for me was what he called storage
virtualization. I had no idea that some of that stuff was being done.
It seems pretty clever and I have been thinking about it a fair amount
since then. I can see it adds performance. reliability and scaling to a
network. I am concerned that it might add fragility. He showed a
device layer between the computers needing storage and the storage
devices. All the details of where bits are stored rest on that layer
and woe to you if that device gets corrupted. Storage virtualization
also puts a lot of demand on your network. I don't think that is bad,
but you need to be prepared for it.
I kept the handout he gave everyone. It shows all of his slides and is
pretty good to read on its own. I won't be at the meeting this weekend
because of a local Science Fiction convention. If you want to read it,
we could work out something. I'd want it back, but I'd be happy to loan
it to you for a while.
Have a good day,
Ralph
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:06 -0500, Fred Hensley wrote:
> Howdy Gang,
>
> Did anyone happen to attend the freebie training Chris Cox referenced
> below back in August?
>
> If so, I'd be very curious to learn more about what they discussed.
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