What is Your Rake Moment?
There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a rake, the storage administrator is often left with a headache. Server virtualization often plays the role of the rake, creating surprise I/O demands and latency spikes.
In our latest StorageShort we are joined by Fritz Gielow, network administrator at The County of Nevada in California. In this video, we discuss how an upgrade to their VMware environment caused unexpected latency issues for the county and how they resolved them.
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George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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Once filled up an overprovisioned Lefthand Networks SAN, which took all the vms offline. Had to pick a LUN to delete because of thin provisioned high water mark, in order to get the other 5 luns online. Almost a resume generating event. Fortunately the SharePoint server was the only vm I couldn’t afford to lose in that LUN, had it on tape in iron mountain via Veeam Backup. Saved my job, love you Veeam.