(IPMP vs LACP) vs MPIO

If you're running an illumos or Solaris-based distribution for your ZFS needs, especially in a production environment, you may find yourself wanting to aggregate multiple network interfaces either for performance, redundancy, or both. With Solaris, your choices are not limited to standard LACP.

VM Disk Timeouts

A pretty common issue to run into when using some SAN back-ends for virtual machines is that the VM's end up crashing, BSOD'ing, or (most commonly) remounting their "disks" read-only when there's a hiccup or failover in the storage system, often resulting in a need to reboot to restore functionality.

Sub-$1K Followup - Learning and Tuning

So as of a few hours ago, I've finally migrated everything off the old home SAN and onto the new one. I'll be updating that post a bit later with the promised pictures, but I must say, I am neither a photographer nor a superior case wiring guy.

Sub-$1000 8 TB Home SAN? Can I do it?

An 8+ TB home SAN in under $1000? Can I do it?
(I'll update with pictures when I can - because everybody likes homebrew SAN pornography).