Patrick Pletscher
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ExaGrid – secure and immutable backup storage
ExaGrid works exclusively on secure, fast backup storage appliances. The goal is that your backup data is available whenever you need it.
2026-07-31 · posts/exagrid.md · 507 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
HPE VM Essentials – Part 2
Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab.
2025-05-06 · posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part-2.md · 578 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
HPE VM Essentials – Part 1
HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor.
2025-02-26 · posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part1.md · 631 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
Scality ARTESCA
ARTESCA from Scality is scalable, secure object storage delivered as a software-defined storage solution.
2025-01-21 · posts/how-to-scality-artesca.md · 1106 words · 6 min · patrick-pletscher
Storage performance testing with vdbench
IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.
2024-05-21 · posts/how-to-storage-performance-test-mit-vdbench.md · 2195 words · 11 min · patrick-pletscher
Infrastructure assessment with HPE CloudPhysics
Replacing your virtual infrastructure and unsure which resources are actually being used, and therefore needed next time round? CloudPhysics ends the guessing.
2024-03-01 · posts/infrastructure-assessment-mit-hpe-cloudphysics.md · 519 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
Storage performance testing with IOmeter
Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.
2024-02-12 · posts/storage-performance-test-mit-iometer.md · 608 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
iTernity iCAS FS
iCAS FS from iTernity is a software-defined storage solution for secure, reliable, fast and scalable file, object and archive storage.
2023-04-26 · posts/icas-fs.md · 1051 words · 5 min · patrick-pletscher
RAID controllers
If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers.
2023-03-13 · posts/raid-controller.md · 640 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
HCI with StorMagic
StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN.
2022-08-18 · posts/hci-mit-stormagic.md · 705 words · 4 min · patrick-pletscher
HPE InfoSight for servers
HPE InfoSight for Servers gives HPE customers a cloud-based platform for analysing, evaluating and monitoring their servers.
2022-08-15 · posts/hpe-infosight-fur-server.md · 678 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
Secure backups with Blocky for Veeam
Backup data is generally treated as the last line of defence, which makes protecting it properly that much more important.
2022-08-11 · posts/sichere-backups-mit-blocky-for-veeam.md · 457 words · 2 min · patrick-pletscher
Veeam and S3 storage with ARTESCA
Ransomware attacks have become a persistent nuisance. Beyond securing network, servers and clients, the backup data has to be protected from tampering as the last line of defence.
2022-08-08 · posts/veeam-und-s3-storage-mit-artesca.md · 657 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher
Securing your data with Veeam SureBackup
How secure is your backup? Have you ever asked yourself if your daily backups really deliver what they promise?
2022-01-07 · posts/securing-your-data-with-veeam-surebackup.md · 458 words · 2 min · patrick-pletscher