Storage
Having problems using diskpart in Windows 7 or Windows 2008?
Do you get errors such as “Disk is offline because of policy set by administrator” or “media is write protected” when trying to create partitions in Windows, especially for SAN storage volumes or LUNs?
Have no fear, there are easy fixes for both. These usually occur on SAN disks presented to Windows servers, either physical or virtual.
Issuing the following commands will solve both problems per incident. Below that I posted an option to avoid the offline disk problem on each server for the future by changing the policy per server.
Digital storage is relatively cheap these days. You can buy a 2 TB hard drive for home for about $60 on sale. I’m a geek and when the PS3 slim came out I figured it was a good time to get this BluRay player, game system, and media center all in one. The problem is, 160 GB doesn’t hold a ton, they don’t tell you that Dolby Digital (via bitstream) is off by default even for DVD/BluRay discs, and there is no easy way to play movies or FLAC files.
If you’re scratching your head at some of the letters I just spit out, let’s rewind a bit. Below I will list a common ailment with home media and PS3, and my recommendations for a fix.
Virtualization is a big buzzword right now, and for good reason. The more we virtualize, the more flexibility we build into our infrastructure. What we are really talking about is providing a layer of abstraction between our resources. The entire IT industry is moving in this direction and it’s fantastic. Swapping server hardware has never been [...]
(originally written in 2008) Deduplication has piqued the curiousity of CTOs and storage managers for a couple years, but is still in its infancy. Being able to restore a 5-year old file remotely within minutes while not having to increase fast disk (read “expensive”) storage capacity is certainly appealing. Gone will be the old days [...]
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