Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Xen & VxVM




The guys over at XenSource have pulled a master stoke, they have announced they will be integrating VxVM & VxFS into their Enterprise product. I'm a VMWARE VCP and it always amazed me that the VMWARE ESX didn't support fibre multipathing with load balancing. I've always taken multipathing for granted with Veritas (Symantec) VxVM DMP (a must with Photons) and latter MPXIO in Solaris.

I'm sure VMWARE will add EMC PowerPath soon to push along those CLARiiON.

Remember you can get Veritas Volume manager for free, check this blog post.

Solstice DiskSuite Command Summary

Having a sort out and found this course handout originally written by John Furlong - Sun Trainer in 23/10/2002  (Free to distribute). Remind...