Category: Data Storage

Data storage is a recording medium is a physical material that holds information.

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Data Center / Data Storage / Virtualization

VMware vSAN Requirements and Best Practices: A Comprehensive Guide

VMware vSAN is a powerful, software-defined storage solution that makes storage management easier by pooling local disks from ESXi hosts into a single storage platform. Its close integration with vSphere makes it a popular choice for organisations looking to modernise their infrastructure. However, implementing vSAN effectively necessitates a thorough understanding of its requirements and best practices.

This guide discusses VMware vSAN’s requirements, fault domain configurations, disk group design, host recommendations, and comparisons to block storage solutions such as Dell PowerStore and Unity. It also covers database deployment on vSAN and offers actionable tips to ensure a successful implementation.

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Data Storage

Silent Data Corruption: Understanding, Prevention, and Recovery

Information integrity is crucial in today’s data-driven world, particularly for vital systems like databases and storage infrastructures. Silent data corruption is one of the most pernicious threats to data integrity. Silent data corruption happens without warning and may go unnoticed for a long time, in contrast to visible errors that can be quickly identified by users or applications. We will examine in detail what silent data corruption is, how it impacts systems, and the tools, devices, and techniques that can be used to stop it in this blog post. With an emphasis on Oracle databases and SAN technologies like T10 PI, we will also go over efficient backup methods and tools for recovering corrupted data.

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Data Center / Data Storage

Ceph Use Cases in vSphere: Best Practices, Challenges, and Comparison with vSAN

VMware vSphere is one of the main virtualization platforms used today. Despite the close integration of VMware’s proprietary Virtual SAN (vSAN) into the vSphere ecosystem, a growing number of enterprises are choosing open-source storage technologies such as Ceph. The choice to incorporate Ceph into a vSphere system requires knowledge of the architecture’s drawbacks as well as its advantages, use cases, and best practices.

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Cloud Native Architecture / Data Storage / Reviews / Software Defined Data Center

MicroCeph: Big Data, Tiny Setup. Where Simplicity Scales Your Storage to the Stars

The open-source software defined storage (SDS) colossus, Ceph, has long been praised for its versatility, scalability, and strong feature set. But creating and maintaining a Ceph cluster, especially for small-scale deployments, may be a difficult undertaking best left to storage experts and experienced system administrators. Introducing MicroCeph, an opinionated and streamlined implementation of Ceph that seeks to enable everyone to use this potent storage solution.

Imagine being able to effortlessly manage a fully functional Ceph cluster with only a few finger snaps. That is MicroCeph’s magic. It uses Snaps, a safe and independent Linux packaging standard, to provide a pre-setup, pre-optimized Ceph experience. Forget about laborious orchestration, complicated daemons, and manual configuration; MicroCeph handles everything, from deployment to continuing management.

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Data Center / Data Storage

Dell EMC PowerFlex: The Ultimate Software-Defined Infrastructure for the Modern Data Center

Block and file storage services are offered by the software-defined infrastructure (SDI) platform Dell EMC PowerFlex. It is made to be extremely scalable, versatile, and resilient, which makes it perfect for a variety of workloads such virtual machines, databases, containers, and big data applications.