by Galileo Team | Nov 18, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
GlusterFS has been a growing distributed filesystem, and is now a part of Red Hat Storage Server. GlusterFS, also with Ceph (not covered in this article), have created a software based filesystem free of metadata. By using a hash algorithm distributed to the clients,...
by Prasad Surampudi | Nov 4, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly known as General Parallel File System – GPFS) is a highly scalable, flexible, reliable, and high performance clustered file system. While many clustered file systems like Lustre, HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and Redhat GFS (Global...
by Blake Basom | Sep 29, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) makes the management of disks, volume groups, and logical volumes very easy, especially when compared to many of the other UNIX and Linux volume managers. However, there are several instances where LVM passes control of the disks...
by Justin Bleistein | Sep 16, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
Many Oracle environments run backups from their Dataguard physical standby database, if applicable. This is best practice in the field because it allows you to offload any overhead of a database backup to the standby database where no applications and/or users are...
by Galileo Team | Jul 24, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
Within the world of POWER hardware, the PowerVM SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) has been the standard when it comes to virtualizing an ethernet adapter for quite some time. With the introduction of SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) the additional VIOS layer is...
by Prasad Surampudi | Jul 8, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
IBM’s Spectrum Scale! Have you not heard of it yet? Spectrum Scale is IBM’s GPFS file system widely used for large scale enterprise clustered file systems that need to scale up to petabytes of storage, thousands of nodes, billions of files and thousands of users...
