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I work for IBM Australia as a Storage Solutions Specialist. My goal is to share my knowledge and experience of using IBM Storage solutions and learn more along the way. You can also find me on IBM developerWorks. Please understand that the postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. Constructive and useful comments are very very welcome.

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Some Highlights from Pulse 2011

Hopefully if your were in Melbourne last week you made it to the IBM Pulse 2011 conference at the Crown Promenade. It was a great success and with 850 attendees, the facilities were packed, especially the main hall. My highlights? Well apart from visiting...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2011 7:23 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Pulse 2011
Spot the differences

As a child I used to love the spot the difference cartoon in the Sunday paper. You usually had 10 differences to circle… and I could never find the last one. Look carefully at the two machines below. Can you spot the differences? It’s an...

Published Wed, Jul 27 2011 11:27 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Gen3 IBM XIV
Brocade SAN Switch Models

IBM has been selling IBM branded Brocade switches since 2001 when we announced the 8-port 2109-S08 and 16-port 2109-S16. These were classic switches that ran at 1 Gbps. They had a front operator panel with a small keypad (a feature which in the rush to...

Published Wed, Jul 20 2011 1:56 PM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: IBM, Brocade
Kangaroo Hops with Brocade

Posted on July 18, 2011 by avandewerdt (image care of www.interestingfacts.org) If you have Brocade fibre channel switches in your SAN, you need to be aware of the method which Brocade use to manage firmware releases. All 4 and 8 Gbps Brocade SAN switches...

Published Mon, Jul 18 2011 11:57 PM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Brocade switches
A Farewell to Singapore

Just a quick post as I am leaving Singapore to return to Melbourne, I thought I would share two more photos with you. No trip to Singapore is complete without a visit to the Merlion , the mythical creature who acts as a mascot for Singapore. The fish...

Published Fri, Jul 15 2011 11:59 PM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Singapore
Nehalem and XIV Gen-3

XIV Gen 3 modules are built on a new generation of Intel microprocessors based on the Nehalem micro-architecture. Nehalem is the most profound architecture change that Intel has introduced in the 21st century. Some of the key changes and their benefits...

Published Wed, Jul 13 2011 1:02 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Nehalem, XIV Gen-3
A brief history of XIV

Today IBM is announcing a new member of the XIV family, which we are calling XIV Gen3. I thought I would give a brief history of how we got here before I get too carried away with details. What was Generation 1 of the XIV? In 2002 an Israeli startup began...

Published Tue, Jul 12 2011 1:05 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: XIV Gen 3
How can I test Storwize V7000 Node Canister failure?

I have received this question several times, so it’s clearly something people are interested in. The Storwize V7000 has two controllers known as node canisters . It’s an active/active storage controller, in that both node canisters are processing...

Published Mon, Jul 11 2011 1:07 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Storwize V700
A tale of three cities

I think this picture speaks for itself: Three XIVs. Three cities. Three way iSCSI. All the mirror connections were created in seconds using drag and drop in the XIV GUI. I can now take a volume in one city and mirror it to another. And yes…. IBM...

Published Fri, Jul 8 2011 1:10 AM by AussieStorBlog
Seven reasons to adopt Storage Virtualization

Over at SearchStorage.com.AU they recently published an article entitled Six reasons to adopt storage virtualisation. You can find the article here . The six given reasons are: Storage virtualisation reduces complexity Storage virtualisation makes it...

Published Thu, Jul 7 2011 1:11 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: storage virtualization
Apple versus the Transformers

I have an admission: I am a bit of an Apple fanboy . Well actually not a full on Apple fanboy, I have an iPhone and an iPad but I don’t have a MacBook (although if IBM start offering a cash payment instead of giving laptops to mobile employees,...

Published Mon, Jul 4 2011 1:13 AM by AussieStorBlog

Filed under: Apple

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July 2011 - The Business of IT Storage Blog

Anthony Vandewerdt

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Some Highlights from Pulse 2011

Spot the differences

Brocade SAN Switch Models

Kangaroo Hops with Brocade

A Farewell to Singapore

Nehalem and XIV Gen-3

A brief history of XIV

How can I test Storwize V7000 Node Canister failure?

A tale of three cities

Seven reasons to adopt Storage Virtualization

Apple versus the Transformers