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Xenserver Enterprise + Fibrechannel storage = live migration

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I finally got round to booking time at the IBM demo center to have a fiddle with Xen Enterprise on shared storage. They've got a good range of entry-level kit at the demo center, but the important bits (for me anyway) were a Bladecenter H chassis with some HS21 blades ...

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Benchmarks of an Intel SRSC16 RAID controller

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

One of our clients gave us an Intel server with an Intel SRSC16 SATA RAID controller and a 500 GB +hotspare RAID1 set up on it, to install XenServer Express 4.0.1 system. While building the system up for him, I noticed abysmal write perfomance. It was taking around ...

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