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Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Mar 29, 2010

Filesystem benchmark extravaganza — Win, Linux, NTFS, EXT4, XFS, BFS scheduler impact and more…

It’s been a while since I checked the status of Linux-land regarding filesystems and CPU and I/O schedulers, so I thought I’d post some results.

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Feb 22, 2010

Protecting your existing legacy storage investment with virtualization “do’s and don’ts”

It’s an undeniable fact that many customers, while they would love to use the highly advanced features of modern disk arrays, have already made a big investment in legacy storage…

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Feb 8, 2010

NetApp disk rebuild impact on performance (or lack thereof)

Due to the craziness in the previous blog, I decided to post an actual graph showing a NetApp system I/O latency while under load and a disk rebuild. It was a bakeoff vs another large storage vendor (which NetApp won).

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Mar 9, 2010

More tales from the field: Sizing best practices — does Compellent follow them?

Technorati Tags: netapp,compellent,performance

Note: I edited this a bit to remove some confusing pieces of info.

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Feb 10, 2010

More FUD busting: Deduplication — is variable-block better than fixed-block, and should you care?

Before all the variable-block aficionados go up in arms, I freely admit variable-block deduplication may overall squeeze more dedupe out of your data.

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

May 7, 2010

NetApp usable space — beyond the FUD

I come across all kinds of FUD, and some of the most ridiculous claims against NetApp regard usable space. I won’t post screenshots from competitive docs since who knows who’ll complain, but suffice it to say that one of the usual strategies against NetApp is to…

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Nov 12, 2010

NetApp posts new SPEC SFS NFS results — far faster than V-Max with Celerra VG8

Following the new NetApp block-based SPC-1 results yesterday, here is some NAS benchmark action. This page contains all the SPEC SFS results. SPEC SFS is the NAS equivalent of SPC-1.

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Feb 2, 2010

Vendor FUD-slinging: at what point should legal action be taken? And who do you believe as a customer?

I’m all for a good fight, but in the storage industry it seems that all too many creative liberties are taken when competing.

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Jan 14, 2010

Pillar claiming their RAID5 is more reliable than RAID6? Wizardry or fiction?

Competing against Pillar at an account. One of the things they said: That their RAID5 is superior in reliability to RAID6. I wanted to put this on the public domain and, if true, invite Pillar…

Dimitris Krekoukias in RecoveryMonkey

Nov 9, 2010

New NetApp SPC-1 submission — more IOPS per drive than any other vendor, and a bit on write caching

The SPC-1(E) benchmark is the standard high-intensity test for block storage, consisting of very stringent rules and a standard test suite.

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