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Designing Storage for Microsoft SQL

May 19, 2008

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s SQL database environment is immensely popular in the market. To that end, EMC and Microsoft have developed “Best Practices” for laying out SQL databases, logs, quorums (for clustering), and TempDb on our arrays. For this entry, I thought I’d provide you with a quick overview of two different disk layouts.

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Why the AX4-5 matters….

April 25, 2008

In my previous post, I discussed the reasons why EMC needed to spent a little more quality time with the SMB market at large. Today, in the course of several back-to-back design calls with various level SMB customers, I was struck by a couple of things.
a.) The Clariion AX4-5, while more of a “baby” [...]

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I *heart* SMB

April 24, 2008

I Love SMBThere’s somewhat of a misconception that EMC dislikes the SMB market. While it’s true that we’ve largely ignored it, our partners in the channel (Dell, CDW, to name a few) have successfully brought our Clariion lines to the mid-level companies out there and have solved their storage needs through aggressive cost-cutting, etc. [...]

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Updates (sort of)

April 13, 2008

I’m trying to keep tabs on the influx of various searches and technologies that are out there in the storage world. To that end, I’m going to do a couple of things:
a.) In the not-so-distant-future, you’re going to see me doing a lot of video presentations on this blog. I’ve got a long [...]

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