Case study: Build Disaster-recovery from ordinary NAS almost free of charge

You have pretty expensive NAS. With the missing disaster-recovery configuration. Let's add it for almost zero cost.

July 13, 2017 · Radovan Turan

Important tip for FC zonning to simplify your life

Many storage teams use port numbers instead of WWNs during FC zone configuration. Do you belong to them? Personally, I think you are making big mistake. It seems that life is easier with port based FC zones but I will show you it could be opposite. If every touching of configuration is handled as planned change by your documented processes, read next. ...

October 20, 2016 · Radovan Turan

3 traditional problems of storage operation and non-traditional solution

If you are managing storage operations team, you are dealing with task how to run systems within your limited budget. Every technical issue costs you a money. Every outage caused by human error is therefore irritating. To eliminate human errors you are fighting with 3 following issues: not possible to limit admin access rights for less skilled team members typos in the naming convention causing non-functional reports non-unified configuration of disk arrays Nobody is solving these problems in most of the companies as there is no time, willingness to do it and often there is a belief that the solution is extremely expensive. But solution is relatively simple and surprisingly cheap. ...

September 22, 2016 · Radovan Turan

3 tradičné problémy storage operations a ich netradičné riešenie

Dream workflow Ak šéfuješ ľuďom, čo majú na starosti diskové polia, denne bojuješ s tým, ako zabezpečiť beh systémov v rámci svojho prideleného rozpočtu. Každý technický problém ťa stojí peniaze. Každý výpadok spôsobený ľudskou chybou ťa štve o to viac. A pri eliminácii ľudských chýb bojuješ s nasledovnými problémami: Nemožnosť prideliť obmedzený admin prístup menej skúseným členom tímu Neodhalené preklepy v názvosloví spôsobujú nefunkčnosť reportov Nejednotná konfigurácia diskových polí Vo väčšine firiem tieto problémy nikto nerieši. Nie je na to čas, chuť a často presvedčenie, že riešenie je extrémne drahé a tým pádom nie sú ani peniaze. Riešenie je však relatívne jednoduché a prekvapivo lacné. ...

September 8, 2016 · Radovan Turan