Uncomplicating Technology
Uncomplicating Technology
In the field of storage, you used to be able to simply buy enough hard drives to fill your space needs and you would end up with sufficient disks to fulfill your performance needs. Unfortunately, with hard disks getting so large, this is no longer the case. To make matters worse, when you start moving …
When people talk about Virtualization, they are most of the time referring to either Machine Virtualization, or Application Virtualization. When You Virtualize an application, you isolate the application to run it its own little world, sometimes called a Sand Box. By doing this you can get around application compatibility issues, and simplify application deployment. These …
When troubleshooting performance issues on a Netapp storage system, Perfstat is a very useful utility. There are other ways to get performance statistics, but they are not quite as detailed. The perfstat file at first glance can be rather daunting. Perfstat files get very large, very fast, and may scare away the faint at heart. …
Disaster recovery can be a difficult thing to plan for. You back up your systems; perhaps you replicate your data to an off-site facility; maybe you even build all redundant systems. After doing all of these things, what is your goal? It is to get your systems back up and running after some sort of …
Virtual Box is a very simple virtual machine package which can be installed on Linux, Mac, Windows, and Solaris. It is open source, so you can compile it to run on other systems as well. In this tutorial, I will cover how to install virtual box and install your first virtual machine. The process of …
In a previous article, we talked about objects and classes, and how they can help you better organize your code. The SOLID principles of Object Oriented Design are a set of principles you can follow to make better use of objects and classes. These principles are not rules. They are more guidelines to try to …
