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The obvious choice for software-defined IT infrastructure is to use high-end x86 processors. Millions of IT environments depend on the x86. When it comes to alternatives the choices have been pretty limited so far. Arm may be on the way to transform your software-defined datacenter. The Arm server market share is small, not at all comparable to the industry-standard x86 …
The capable CloudStack storage solutions are few. Cloud providers, MSPs, and Enterprises benefit from StorPool together with CloudStack in order to accelerate their applications while increasing the ROI (Return on Investment) of their IT. Combined with its efficiency, scalability, and reliability, StorPool can boost the performance of your CloudStack infrastructure and help you to achieve superb end-user experience. The History …
In his recent talk Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool Storage gave the audience useful tactical pieces of advice on how to build a software-defined cloud. The software is “eating” the world The truth is the world is rapidly adopting all sorts of software-defined solutions. The software is for sure the new norm. Everything is becoming simpler, smaller, and more friendly …
While debugging an issue in a new StorPool deployment we re-discovered a kernel bug that exists in some of the latest Linux kernels and causes silent data corruption. The setup is a virtualized environment where the kernel containing the bug was running on the host. The guests were KVM virtual machines with io=threads (the default in standard libvirt/qemu packages) and …
Here’s one case we’ve spent some time debugging, related to StorPool, VMs, cgroups, OOM (out-of-memory) killer and caching. Some of it should be useful to a lot of sysadmins out there. The issue started with a customer complaining: > It’s happening again, on this hypervisor VMs are being killed > by the OOM killer. This doesn’t happen on hypervisors where …
Are convergence and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) just a hype or are they something really useful, which will give you numerous benefits? As the discussions on this topic are evolving day by day, in this article we sum-up our latest expertise: when is HCI right for you? What is the difference between hyper-converged and converged systems? As most buzzwords, converged and …
StorPool is happy to present an enhanced version of its storage Monitoring and Analytics Tool. If you are using StorPool storage and taking the benefits of high throughput, low latency, and great reliability, this tool will be useful to provide your system administrators with statistics and valuable information. Now, it is even better, more detailed and provides better UX. StorPool …
Backup and Disaster Recovery are of major importance for the quality of the IT services a company can offer. The reliable and up-to-date backup guarantees you will be prepared to restore data in case of loss. On the other hand, a Disaster Recovery solution ensures the business continuity for your customers. These two options are both provided by StorPool Storage …
You want to build a storage system, your data is 100TB and you suppose you need 100TB storage capacity. Are you sure you are right? How to define the size of your storage system? Especially if you need scalability and redundancy? Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool gave a brief talk on this topic “Provisioned, Usable and Raw Storage – Storage …
For the last 2 years more and more companies are switching to Software Defined Storage (SDS). This process is driven by the fundamental changes in the IT market and business needs of the modern enterprise. As IDC reports “For IT organizations undergoing digital transformation, SDS provides a good match for the capabilities needed – flexible IT agility; easier, more intuitive …
