Deploying iSCSI SANs in a Virtualized Environment By Brian Ducharme published: Friday, June 08 2007
VSM speaks with Scott Wilson, Regional Sales Manager for LeftHand Networks about iSCSI SANs
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Podcast Summary:
Length: 25:13
- Introduction
- Pioneer of iSCSI (00:37)
- Created an iSCSI OS; SAN IQ(01:01)
- Storage clusters vs Grid storage(02:20)
- SAN IQ powers 7 Pedabytes of storage (03:00)
- Partnered with VMvare (03:38)
- Server virtualization is driving the iSCSI storage market (04:42)
- LeftHand is like VMware (05:32)
- SAN IQ creates virtual volumes (06:47)
- Virtual Volumes can be distributed across multiple physical servers (07:15)
- SAN IQ gives iSCSI SANs equal performance to Fibre Channel SANs (08:05)
- Data Protection (08:35)
- Raid 5 with added mirroring (09:02)
- Not limited by location (10:36)
- Virtual volumes can span different facilities (10:52)
- Eliminates single point of failure assisting (DR) Disaster Recovery (08:05)
- Benefits of Open SAN architecture (13:34)
- Servers are now predominately x86 based (16:24)
- Sun Micro Systems (17:10)
- Power consumption and heat dissipation (19:00)
- LeftHand in the future (19:47)
- IBM and HP enterprise class platforms (20:50)
- 10 gigabit Ethernet will help enterprise class storage on iSCSI
- Closing
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