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3 Days at VMworld

3 Days of VMworld has left me exhausted and stuffed with new ideas, concepts, and tools!

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It was really great meeting

It was really great meeting you in person finally.

I have a huge amount of respect and admiration for your talents and contributions to the virtualization environment.

I hope to see you again soon.

Jase
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Xiotech

We have been looking at the Xiotech storage solutions, and frankly, it seems kind of sketchy.

Why? Well, one reason is the way their drive packs are configured, if you have drive failure, You must wait to replace the whole pack, not a individual drive, you can not replace the drive pack until you run out of reserved space. (ISE Technology) What will this do to performance? It seems the vendor doesn't want to share this information, and if I am going to rely on this for a SMB setting, it seems risky.

In my book, this would be fine in a large data center, where you need to cut down on drive replacements.

My 2 cents.

Roger Lund
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