I’ve already talked about one of OpenStack’s core building blocks, Cinder, which is OpenStack’s block based storage feature. Now, I want to take a closer look at Swift, OpenStack’s object based storage project, and another key component to an OpenStack deployment. Swift enables the storage and retrieval of data by using a simple API. It …
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OpenStack was created to provide a complete, open source cloud operating system. In addition to being community driven, OpenStack aims to be simple. By providing an easy to use dashboard and user interface (in addition to command line tools and RESTful APIs), OpenStack empowers the end users to use the cloud resources as they see …
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …
I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry at the fact that the first objective on the VCAP-DCA 550 exam is storage. We all know how much I hate block based storage, so I’m really having to force myself to power through it, which gave me the idea for this blog series. Yes, …
I’m a NAS girl when it comes down to it. Before I did the whole SaaDJ (Storage as a Day Job) thing, I was a VMware architect and administrator with a huge environment. My previous knowledge of storage basically came from what I saw on the VMware side of things. Please note, the following are …
What are IOPS anyway? Simply put, they are Input/Output Operations Per Second, and they are meaningless. (How many IOPS do you think I can get this thing up to, anyway?) Wait, what? How could I possibly be calling IOPS meaningless? I’m a STORAGE person! How could I say this? I think that maybe it was …