Episode 53
| July 13, 2016
| 47 minutes
Storage Options
Compañeros! Welcome back to the SQL Trail. Have you ever wondered what a LUN is? Have you given some thought about getting more into new storage options, but aren’t sure where to start? You’re in luck because in Episode 53 Steve Stedman and I chat with THE Argenis Fernandez, storage guru and PASS Director-at-Large. We talk storage options, LUNs, IOPs, and why he thinks we all need to approach storage a lot differently. Steve and I learn something new from him every time we talk to him and this time is no exception.
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Listen to learn…
- Why Argenis thinks that drive letters are outdated… and what you should use instead
- How ITIL ruins storage in most companies
- The “Argenis definition” of a LUN, IOPS, and more…
- The information Argenis thinks all DBAs should know
- The difference between LUNs, mount points, and data stores
- How to partition your data files and logs in physical storage vs. in virtualized environments
- How IOPS fits into the SQL Server storage environment
- What you should worry about instead of IOPs
- The one thing he’d change about SQL Server
Our Guest
Argenis Fernandez
Argenis is a Solutions Architect with PureStorage, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, VMWare vExpert, and a well-known face to the #SQLFamily community, especially since he’s now the Director-at-Large of SQL PASS. He’s a regular speaker at PASS events, including SQL Server Summit. He also founded the PASS Security Virtual Chapter.
We’ve been avoiding the topic of storage for a long time. And you know what? We actually have ITIL to blame. Do you know it’s ITIL that actually started splitting responsibilities between operations and engineering? And then even within operations there will be people in charge of certain things. So isolation in environments and segmentation of duties in companies, that’s actually brought us to where we are today.
Meet the Hosts
Carlos Chacon
With more than 10 years of working with SQL Server, Carlos helps businesses ensure their SQL Server environments meet their users’ expectations. He can provide insights on performance, migrations, and disaster recovery. He is also active in the SQL Server community and regularly speaks at user group meetings and conferences. He helps support the free database monitoring tool found at databasehealth.com and provides training through SQL Trail events.
Eugene Meidinger
Eugene works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. He has been working with data for over 8 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He also helps run the GroupBy online conference.
Kevin Feasel
Kevin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in T-SQL development, machine learning, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL, president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group, and author of the books PolyBase Revealed (Apress, 2020) and Finding Ghosts in Your Data: Anomaly Detection Techniques with Examples in Python (Apress, 2022). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
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