Virtualise Storage with Style: Shared Storage PoolsThe team from IBM's Advanced Technology Support, Europe have done it again! Their free Webinar Series on Power Systems Virtualisation from IBM has another contribution from Nigel Griffiths, (a.k.a. Mr NMon). This presentation is on Shared Storage Pools from Experience - a kind of walk through of where the rubber hits the road. On the PowerVM Virtualisation Webinar Series Wiki, scroll down to Session 13: Shared Storage Pools ... from Experience. As you probably know, Shared Storage Pools allow you to have a large single chunk of storage allocated to multiple Virtual I/O Servers and then leave you to manage how that storage is cut up for the virtual clients (the AIX logical partitions). That makes for fast provisioning of storage, which removes a common roadblock in projects. With Shared Storage Pools, you can reduce the storage provisioning time down from weeks to ... seconds! Techie's Take The webinar is not a sales pitch. It's a techie's take that steps you through:
... and a whole lot more. There's a Finally, I'd encourage you to register for the Webinar series via the PowerVM Wiki. You get an email alert each month to advise you of the upcoming topic, and you can watch the presentation live, participate in surveys and so on. .. and a Plug for Twitter Maybe you, like me - and many other AIXers - are of a certain age and are sceptical of the benefits of social networking, especially via Facebook and Twitter. Well, I have to say that I have found Twitter a great source of valuable, timely information on AIX. You don't have to follow every last celebrity, but I would encourage you to sign up, if only to follow a few of my favourite AIX celebrities, all of whom deserve more of a following than Lady Gaga, IMHO:  Nigel Griffiths, Mr Nmon himself. He regularly posts his contributions on the AIXPert blog.  Rob McNelly, author of the weekly AIXChange blog  Nicolette McFadden, the most prolific AIX tweeter in Social Media land  and my Aussie compatriot, Chris Gibson who has his very helpful AIX blog. So much for some of the celebrities in AIX twitter space! If you're really keen, you could  follow me on Twitter, too. I always use Twitter to post links to my articles on Power IT Pro, IBM Systems Magazine - AIX Extra and IBM developerWorks. I also post tips and tricks which may not make it into a blog post on AIX Down Under. |
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