When driving by the Aveda Institute one day, my wife pointed out to me that you can always tell how far into the program that the students are. The new hairdressers have long locks of hair, but those further along in the program have their hair get shorter and shorter and shorter. This is seemingly because they keep tweaking their hair through the program until there’s practically nothing left. Websites can turn out to be almost the exact opposite. The more you tweak it the bigger it gets, the longer it takes to load and the less time you have to focus on content. I’ve added a bunch of new…
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Xsan: Designing an Xsan
Planning an Xsan is perhaps the most complicated part of any deployment. First, start with one of two objectives, speed or size (or both). How big does the SAN need to be and what speeds does the SAN (aggregate speed of all clients) need to be able sustain? That becomes the primary design consideration. Beyond that, you’ll also want to plan how it will get backed up and when, the makeup of the clients (Mac, PC, Linux), how permissions will get handled for new files written to the SAN, etc.