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By admin, September 22, 2011 11:00 am

Just another good one from Veeam’s Anton!

Functionality wise, top 3 differences between host based replication Veeam v5 and SRM v5 are:

1. Multiple replica restore points vs. single restore point
In other words, if you don’t spot the corruption immediately, your replica will have absolutely no use. Consider virus infection, or application data corruption – both are very hard to spot immediately.

2. Application-aware image processing vs. basic file-level consistency
We perform application-specific VSS backup step when grabbing the image, as well as application-specific VSS restore steps upon failover (when replica VM is first started) as per Microsoft requirements. vSphere replication just picks up the image without looking inside or trying to meet any Microsoft requirements on how application should be backed up and restored. Exchange webinar goes into specific details using Exchange as example.

3. File level restores from replica
You decide how this is important for you, I know many customers love it.

v6 adds much more stuff to this list (big focus on replication there), but since v6 not generally available yet, it is not fair to use its features as differentiators (even though we are so close!)

SRM is great for storage-level replication and whole site failover orchestration, and our replication is great for smaller scope outages and better protection of individual most critical workloads due to multiple restore points. My take is that vSphere 5 replication is way to basic to provide replacement for our replication (especially with v6 functionality), but neither our v6 removes the need for SRM v5 in scenarios where storage-level replication and site failover orchestration are required to meet RTO and RPO in case of large scale site-wide disaster.

Of course, there is also huge price difference, but that does not matter for you since you already own SRM anyway.

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By admin, September 21, 2011 3:30 pm

最近發現了個新大陸﹐就是來自澳洲的創作女歌手“Lenka”。開始還以為那把清新感覺的磁性聲線是個青春小女孩﹐原來直覺往往是不可靠的。事實上已經介入中女行列的Lenka可謂大器晚成﹐很多人可能都聽過那兩首朗朗上口的The Show和Trouble Is A Friend﹐但其實她的兩只大碟Lenka和TWO裡還有很多其它意想不到的驚喜﹗最喜歡那些輕快的節奏﹐很有大都市小資的感覺﹐如“Everything at Once”﹑“Dangerous And Sweet””﹑“Heart Skips a Beat” 等。

有點可惜的是錯過了今年二月Lenka在香港的新碟發佈會﹐沒能現場欣賞到她的精彩表演。

咦﹐突然發現Lenka的感覺很像香港本地的一隊Band “My Little Airport”﹐其中最出名的那首“浪漫九龍塘”﹐不知道有否同道中人認同﹖

Update: Sept-25

Lenka will perform live in Hong Kong in Sept 29 (Thur) at the 九龍灣國際展貿中心 (KITEC-Rotunda-3), but HK$380 for 2:30 hours free standing is going to be hard for me, ops…so I guess I just skip it as I can’t queue up as early as 3pm that day like those young kids, too bad!

Despite Typhoon Signal 8, Lenka Live will go on according to schedule tonight, guess what? I got the last minute ticket, Yeah!

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By admin, September 21, 2011 3:03 pm

今天才看到的﹐講的真TMD的到Point﹗

“Whatever u give a woman,she will make greater.If u give her sperm,she’ll give u a baby.If u give her a house,she’ll give u a home.If u give her a smile,she’ll give u her heart.She multiplies&enlarges what is given to her.So,if u give her any crap,be ready to receive a ton of shit”

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By admin, September 20, 2011 11:53 am

可以說是包羅萬有﹐你想到的﹐幾乎都有﹐尤其是那些年代已久的絕版車模目錄﹐唯獨不見最期待的UT目錄﹐可惜。

http://www.mdiecast.com/news.php?id=1313782181

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By admin, September 20, 2011 10:50 am

This is the real picture (STS088-724-70) from the real NASA web site (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/)

When follow the link and click the bigger image, the actual effect is very shocking! Actually, there are 5 more pictures from the same capture time. (STS088-724-65 to 69)

I can’t explain what it is, the most closest explanation is the secret weapon from US or an alien space ship!

Of course the US government can easily make up something like this by putting a space ship image over the original, but why would they do this? But why does US government want to create such a turbulence in pubic by exposing their newly developed secret weapon that doesn’t particular benefit anything financially, politically or similar?

So I can’t think of any motivation behind the making up assumption except it’s the genuine photo.

It could be a Space Junk (could be an abandoned satellite) left there by US or USSR with the possibility less than 1% Actually, there are at least 6 other photos showing the strange shape objects standing still in space from NASA web site.

If it is space junk, then how can we explain the extra ignition fire on left of the body and the three fine aligned lights on the right edge, well it could be the reflection of sunlight, but unlikely.

Btw, one thing is sure, it’s not something an ordinary airplane can reach. This photo was taken from outer space with Spacecraft Altitude: 214 nautical miles (396 km) and the highest record for human airplane is only about 112km, so that’s 3 times more than the best aeroplane can reach.

“The highest altitude obtained by a manned aeroplane (launched from another aircraft) is 111,996 m (367,441 ft) by Brian Binnie in the Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne (powered by a Scaled Composite SD-010 engine with 18,000 lb of thrust) on 4 October 2004 at Mojave,”

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record)

Well, it is just a really blizzard picture with too many question marks after all.

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By admin, September 19, 2011 3:16 pm

週末閑逛本地拍賣場的時候﹐無意間發現了這個絕版已久的Autoart桃木製底座車模展示盒子﹐跟賣家聯絡後﹐發現原來他也只有這麼一件而已。

其實多年來一直都想購買一個比較高級的木紋底座展示盒子用來展示那些五六十年代經典的法拉利或者是CMC的那些精密車模﹐無奈市面上只有寥寥可數的兩款可供選購。

其中一個就是這款Autoart的﹐但2004年後已經絕版已久﹐聽說是製作成本高昂﹑利潤過低﹑較少人傾采的原因導致了Autoart停止了這款車模展示盒子的持續生產。

另一款則是CMC製作的﹐價格比AA貴上一倍不說﹐竟然底座沒有桃木紋理﹐當然在近距離仔細觀察下﹐你會發現Autoart的木製底座其實也是鋪了層仿真度極高的桃木表皮(應該是塑料做的)﹐但遠看還是觀賞度和實用性大大高于CMC的那款﹐因為自己認為CMC的那款只局限于CMC自家出的車模﹐並不太適合擺放比較現代的車款。

其實AA還有另外一款大一倍的木製底座車模展示盒子﹐那是個可以並排裝兩台1比18的樣式﹐雖然實用性也不高﹐但現在還是絕版了。

1/18 CLEAR COVER & WOODEN BASE PLATE SET (90081)

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By admin, September 17, 2011 7:56 pm

It’s been more than one month since my last appearance on the court. I enjoyed playing again today with my partner, I feel so good being able to come out and play again under the sunshine. 

I started slowly and picked up the pace gradually, worked on my forehand, then backhand, then volley and finally the serve. In particular, I emphasized on my form, not to “late hit” on every single shot and completed my swing motion more fluidly than before, there I see the effect immediately, my shots is more speedy and more spin. Now I regret that I was being so lazy and hurt myself eventually, stupid really!

Finally, I started to use Nike Patella Band for my left knee for extra protection. After the game, I rushed to Gigasport and bought another one for my right knee. The Petella Band worths the investment and it’s only HK$62 after discount, they worked pretty well I must say for my knees that’s getting older every day.  

Well, I simply try to use every possible method to extend my tennis game till 80 years old!

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By admin, September 17, 2011 7:28 pm

Dell added eMLC drives from SanDisk (with technology acquired from Pliant Technology) in its EqualLogic PS6100 storage arrays launched this month.

The 5.1 firmware handles tiering and load balancing that can help manage SSDs by moving data based on access patterns, Vigil said. Although EqualLogic has been offering single-level cell (SLC) SSDs in the PS6000 line since 2009, Vigil said less than 10% of EqualLogic systems ship with SSDs. “We’re seeing that our customers don’t need a lot of SSDs, but SSDs gives a nice performance boost for those who do need them,” he said.

Does it make sense to use “not so reliable” MLC SSD for enterprise storage? Well, it really depends on your situation. Hitachi is the first vendor launching eMLC SSD, I am sure others will follow this trend. MLC costs a lot less than SLC (at least 50%) and SSD is known for its huge READ IOPS performance, so it may be a good alternative for your database, exchange type of appilcations.

Of course, for those who can afford, FusionIO is your only choice currently, think about the IOPS coming from a 5TB SSD (also based on MLC), it’s just unbelievably fast and expensive as well!

Finally, I enjoyed reading this article related to Equallogic and SSD: “Are costly SSDs worth the money?”

He bought three SSDs to serve as top-tier storage for business intelligence (BI) applications on his SAN. The flash storage outperformed 60 15,000rpm Fibre Channel disk drives when it came to small-block reads.

However, when Marbes used the SSDs for large-block random reads and any writes, “the 60 15K spindles crushed the SSDs,” he said, demonstrating that flash deployments should be strategically targeted at specific applications.

 

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By admin, September 15, 2011 9:52 pm

Were these two playing video game?

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By admin, September 14, 2011 9:12 pm

可愛的Fiat 500竟然也搞起了不同的Crossover﹐這台限量版的Gucci Fiat 500真的很特別﹑很型格﹐當然也很貴﹗值不值得﹖那真的見仁見智了﹗