Storage

I’m a big fan of HP StoreVirtual. It’s a great solution for stretched storage clusters, and I’ve worked on numerous environments with StoreVirtual at the storage layer. Firstly, if you don’t know what StoreVirtual is and how it works: It’s a clustered SAN solution, usually comprising of a minimum of 2x nodes but you can use a single node. They’re actually HP DL3xx servers full of disks; they use HP RAID controllers (normally 4xx series) and the same discrete cards you’d expect to find in servers not running for storage alone. Locally, disks run in RAID (5 for some models, 6 and 10 for others). Volumes that are presented to servers can be configured in “network RAID” such as network […]