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Testing Storage Systems: Methodology and Common Pitfalls

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

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Friday, November 14, 2014 - 2:00pm-2:45pm

John Constable, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute

Abstract: 

Vendors always have the latest system they would like you to pay for. Let's face it: even if the system is free, there is still a cost to implement, manage, and decomission it. This talk will cover the negative, functional, and performance testing that the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute does to try to cover these areas within a reasonable time scale. The talk will also highlight some of the issues we run into while testing, along with some tips and tricks we've developed after testing several types of vendor equipment over the past three years.

John Constable, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute

John Constable is a sysadmin in the High Performance Computing team at the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute with 23PB of storage. He has worked on storage evaluation and management (both equipment and system administration) and has evaluated seven storage solutions over the past few years. He lives in Cambridge, UK.

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@conference {209023,
author = {John Constable},
title = {Testing Storage Systems: Methodology and Common Pitfalls},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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