[TriLUG] Meeting: September 14, Rethinking RAID

[karl flores via TriLUG]

Hi Brian,

Can you give me a thumbs up on Lauren and I doing a brief introduction of
our program to the group tomorrow night?

thanks

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Brian Gerard via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org
> wrote:

> Topic:     Rethinking RAID
> Presenter: Dwain Sims
> When:      Thursday, 14 September 2017 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
> Where:     NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
> Parking:   Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building
>            (see map).
>
> Links:
>         Map:    https://goo.gl/SNVQgZ
>         Page:   https://trilug.org/2017-09-14/rethinking-raid
>         Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/242973463/
>
> Note the venue - we are in our new location!
>
> Summary
> For those of us still configuring physical servers and storage, using RAID
> to
> ensure the availability of storage is part of our everyday jobs. But
> things are
> changing rapidly in the types of storage devices being used, as well as
> their
> characteristics. Standard RAID techniques may carry consequences that
> solution
> architects may not realize are present.
>
> This talk will examine the beginnings of RAID, how we got to where we are
> at
> now, and some of the issues that currently exist with RAID. Alternate
> techniques
> (including open source solutions) can provide more resiliency with fewer
> gotchas. There will also be a quick tutorial on "fio", the flexible I/O
> tester.
>
> Bio
> Dwain Sims has been working in the UNIX/Linux world for the last 30 years.
> He
> started out using BSD UNIX on a PDP-11 while in Graduate School (West
> Virginia
> University), and he has been hooked ever since.
>
> Dwain has worked as a system admin and data center architect, product
> manager,
> trainer, and as a Systems Engineer for various companies (including Sun
> Microsystems and Fusion-io). He currently works for Western Digital /
> SanDisk /
> HGST. (yes, he is confused at times!)
>
> He has been working in the storage (mainly Flash) world for the last 5
> years,
> helping bring the storage revolution to the masses. He lives in North
> Raleigh
> with his wife Cleo (of 28 years), 4 children (1 married and living in
> Charlotte
> - a Nurse Practitioner, 2 at NC State, and one still living at home), and
> 5 hens.
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