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Does your Building Block need a Fabric? <- Part 6
Okay, so this is all well and good, but you have been reading these posts and thinking that your environment is nowhere near the size of my example so Building Blocks are not for you. The fact is you can make individual Building Blocks quite a bit smaller or larger than the example I used in these posts and I'll use a couple more quick examples to illustrate.
Small Environment: In this example, we'll break down a 150 VM environment into three Building Blocks to provide the availability benefit of multiple isolated blocks. Additional Building Blocks can be deployed as the environment grows.
150 Total VMs deployed over 12 months
(2 vCPUs/32GB Disk/1GB RAM/25 IOPS per VM)
- 300 vCPUs
- 4800 GB Disk Space
- 3750 Host IOPS
Assuming 3 Building Blocks, each Building Block would look something like this:
- 50 VMs per Building Block
- 2 x Dual CPU – 6 Core Servers (Maintains the 4:1 vCPU to Physical thread ratio)
- 24-32GB RAM per server
- 19 x 300GB 10K disks in RAID10 (including spares) — any VNXe or VNX model will be fine for this
- >1600GB Usable disk space (this disk config provides more disk space and performance than required)
- >1250 Host IOPS
Very Large Environment: In this example, we'll scale up to 45,000 VMs using sixteen Building Blocks to provide the availability benefit of multiple isolated blocks. Additional Building Blocks can be deployed as the environment grows.
45000 Total VMs deployed over 48 months
(2 vCPUs/32GB Disk/4GB RAM/50 IOPS per VM)
- 90000 vCPUs
- 1,440,000 GB Disk Space
- 2,250,000 Host IOPS
Assuming 4 Building blocks per year, each Building Block would look something like this:
- 2812 VMs per Building Block
- 18 x Quad CPU – 10 Core Servera plus Hyperthreading (Maintains the 4:1 vCPU to Physical thread ratio)
- 640GB Ram per server
- 1216 x 300GB 15K disks in RAID10 (including spares) — one EMC Symmetrix VMAX for each Building Block
- >90000GB Usable disk space (the 300GB disks are the smallest available but still too big and will provide quite a bit more space than the 90TB required. This would be a good candidate for EMC FASTVP sub-LUN tiering along with a few SSD disks, which would likely reduce the overall cost)
- >140,000 Host IOPS
Hopefully this series of posts have shown that the Building Block approach is very flexible and can be adapted to fit a variety of different environments. Customers with environments ranging from very small to very large can tune individual Building Block designs for their needs to gain the advantages of isolated, repeatable deployments, and better long term use of capital.
Finally, if you find the benefits of the Building Block approach appealing, but would rather not deal with the integration of each Building Block, talk with a VCE representative about VBlock which provides all of the benefits I've discussed but in a pre-integrated, plug-and-play product with a single support organization supporting the entire solution.
Does your Building Block need a Fabric? <- Part 6
Sizing your Building Block <- Part 5 -> I'm too small for Building Blocks
You may have noticed in the last installment that I did not include any FibreChannel switches in the example BOM. There are essentially three ways to deal with the SAN connectivity in a Building Block and there are advantages as well as disadvantages to each. (Note: this applies to iSCSI as well)
1.) Use switches that already exist in your datacenter: You can attach each storage array and each server back to a common fabric that you already have (or that you build as part of the project) and zone each of the Building Block's servers to their respective storage array.
- Advantages:
- Leverage any existing fabric equipment to reduce costs and centralize management
- Allow for additional servers to be added to each Building Block in the future
- Allow for presenting storage from one Building Block to servers in a different Building Block (useful for migrations)
- Disadvantages:
- Increases complexity – Requires you to configure zoning within each Building Block during deployment
- Increases chances for human error that could cause an outage – Accidentally deleting entire Zonesets or VSANs is not as uncommon as you might think
- Reduces the availability isolation between Building Blocks – The fabric itself becomes a point-of-failure common to all Building Blocks.
2.) Deploy a dedicated fabric within each Building Block: Since each Building Block has a known quantity of storage and server ports, you can easily add a dual-switch/fabric into the design. In our example of 9 hosts you'd need a total of 18 ports for hosts and maybe 8 ports for the storage array for a combined total of 26 switch ports. Two 16-port switches can easily accommodate that requirement.
- Advantages:
- Depending on the switches used, it could allow for additional servers in each Building Block in the future
- Allow for presenting storage from one Building Block to servers in a different building block (useful for migrations) by connecting ISLs between Building Blocks
- Maintains the Building Block isolation by not sharing the fabric switches across Building Blocks.
- Disadvantages:
- Increases complexity – Requires you to configure zoning within each Building Block during deployment
- Increases chances for human error that could cause an outage – Again, accidentally deleting entire Zonesets or VSANs is not as uncommon as you might think
3.) Dispense with the fabric entirely: Since Building Blocks are relatively small, resulting in fewer total initiator/target pairs, it's possible in some cases to directly attach all of the hosts to the storage array. In our example, the nine hosts need eighteen ports and the VNX5700 supports up to twenty four FC ports. This means you can directly attach all of the hosts to the array and still have six remaining ports on the array for replication, etc. Different arrays from EMC as well as other vendors will have various limits on the number of FC ports supported. Also, not all vendors support direct attached hosts so you'll need to check that with your storage vendor of choice to be sure.
- Advantages:
- Maintains the Building Block isolation by not sharing the fabric switches across Building Blocks.
- Simplifies deployment by eliminating the need to do any zoning at all and effectively eliminates any port queue limits (HBA elevator depth settings)
- Simplifies troubleshooting by eliminating the fabric (buffer to buffer credits, bandwidth, port errors, etc) from the IO path.
- Disadvantages:
- Limits the number of hosts per Building Block by the maximum number of ports supported by the storage array.
- More difficult to non-disruptively migrate VMs between Building Blocks since storage cannot be shared across. (If all Building Blocks are in the same Virtual Data Center in VMWare vSphere, you can still live-migrate VMs via the IP network between Building Blocks using Storage vMotion)
If you decide that the host count limit is okay, and either non-disruptive migration between Building Blocks is unnecessary or Storage vMotion will work for you, then eliminating the fabric can reduce cost and complexity, while improving overall availability and time to deploy. If you need the flexibility of a fabric, I personally like using dedicated switches in each building block. Cisco and Brocade both offer 1U switches with up to 48 ports per switch that will work quite well. Always deploy two switches (as two fabrics) in each Building Block for redundancy.
Okay, so you've managed to calculate the size of your environment, how much time it will take you to virtualize it, the number of Building Blocks you need, and the specifications for each Building Block, including whether you need a fabric. Now you can submit your budget, get your final quotes, and place orders. Once the equipment arrives it's time to implement the solution.
When your first Building Block arrives, it would be a valuable use of time to learn how to script the configuration for each component in the Building Block. An EMC VNX array can be completely configured using Naviseccli or PowerShell, from the Storage Pool and LUN provisioning to initiator registration and Host/LUN masking. VMWare vSphere can similarly be configured using scripts or PowerShell. If you take the time to develop and test your scripts against your first Building Block, then you can use those scripts to quickly stand up each additional Building Block you deploy. Since future Building Blocks will be nearly identical, if not entirely identical, the scripts can speed your deployment time immensely.
EMC Navisphere/Unisphere CLI (for VNX) is documented fully in the VNX Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference for Block 1.0 A02. This document is available on EMC PowerLink at the following location:
Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ J-O ~ Documentation > Navisphere Management Suite > Maintenance/AdministrationBe sure to leverage any storage vendor plug-ins available to you for your chosen hypervisor (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc) to improve visibility up and down the layers and reduce the number of management tools you need to use on a daily basis.
For example, EMC Unisphere Manager, the array management UI running on the VNX storage array, includes built-in integration with VMWare and other host operating systems. Unisphere Manager displays the VMFS datastores, RDMs, and VMs that are running on each LUN and a storage administrator can quickly search for VM names to help with management and/or troubleshooting tasks.
EMC also provides free downloadable plug-ins for VMWare vSphere and Hyper-V so server administrators can see what storage arrays and LUNs are behind their VMs and datastores. The plug-ins also allow administrators to provision new LUNs from the storage array through the plug-ins without needing access to the array management tools.
Depending on which storage vendor you choose, if you build a fabric-less Building Block, you may be able to do all of your server and storage administration from vCenter if you leverage the free plug-ins.
Sizing your Building Block <- Part 5 -> I'm too small for Building Blocks
How many Building Blocks? <- Part 4 -> Does your Building Block need a Fabric?
Now that we know we'll be deploying about 562 VM's per Building Block we can use the other metrics to determine the requirements for a single block.
- Since 562 VMs is about 12.5% of the 4500 total VMs, we then calculate 12.5% of the other metrics determined in the last post.
- 12.5% of 9000 vCPUs = 1125 vCPUs
- 12.5% of 4500GB RAM = 562GB RAM
- 12.5% of 225,000 IOPS = 28125 Host IOPS
- 12.5% of 562TB = 70TB Usable Disk capacity
First we'll size the compute layer of the Building Block
- At 4:1 vCPUs per Physical CPU thread you'd want somewhere around 281 hardware threads per Building Block. Using 4-socket, 8-core servers (32 cores per server) you'd need about 9 physical servers per building block. The number of vCPUs per physical CPU thread affects the % CPU Ready time in VMWare vSphere/ESX environments.
- For 562GB of total RAM per Building Block, each server needs about 64GB of RAM
- Per standard best practices, a highly available server needs two HBAs, more than two can be advantageous with high IOPS loads.
Next, we'll calculate the storage layer of the Building Block
- Assuming no cache hits, the backend disk load for 28,125 Host IOPS @ 50:50 read/write looks like the following:
- RAID10 : 28125/2 + 28125/2*2 = 42187 Disk IOPS
- RAID5 : 28125/2 + 28125/2*4 = 70312 Disk IOPS
- RAID6 : 28125/2 + 28125/2*6 = 98437 Disk IOPS
- If you calculate the number of disks required to meet the 70TB Usable in each RAID level, and the # of disks needed for both 10K RPM and 15K RPM disks to meet the IOPS for each RAID level, you'll eventually find that for this specific example, using EMC Best Practices, 600GB 10K RPM SAS disks in RAID10 provides the least cost option (317 disks including hot spares). Since 10K RPM disks are also available in 2.5" sizes for some storage systems, this also provides the most compact solution in many cases (29 Rack Units for an EMC VNX storage array that has this configuration). In reality this is a very conservative configuration that ignores the benefits of storage array caching technologies and any other optimizations available, it's essentially a worst case scenario and it would be beneficial to work with your storage vendor's performance group to perform a more intelligent modeling of your workload.
- Finally, you'll need to select a storage array model that meets the requirements. Within EMC's portfolio, 317 disks necessitate an EMC VNX5700 which will also have more than enough CPU horsepower to handle the 28125 host IOPS requirement.
At this point you've determined the basic requirements for a single Building Block which you can use as a starting point to work with your vendors for further tuning and pricing. Your vendors may also propose various optimizations that can help save you money and/or improve performance such as block-level tiering or extended SSD/Flash based caching.
Example bill-of-materials (BOM):
- 9 x Quad-CPU/8-Core servers w/64GB RAM each
- 2 x Single port FibreChannel HBAs
- 1 x EMC VNX5700 Storage Array with 317 x 300GB 2.5" 10K SAS disks
Wait, where's the fabric?
How many Building Blocks? <- Part 4 -> Does your Building Block need a Fabric?
The Building Block Approach <- Part 3 -> Sizing your Building Block
The key to sizing Building Blocks is to calculate the ratio between the compute and storage metrics. First you need to take a look at the total performance and disk space requirements for the whole environment, similar to the below example:
- Total # of Virtual Machines you expect to be hosting (example: 4500 VMs)
- Total Virtual CPUs assigned to all Guest VMs (average of 2 vCPUs per VM = 9000 vCPUs)
- Total Memory required across all Guest VMs (average of 1GB per VM = 4.5TB)
- Total Host IOPS needed at the array for all Guest VMs (average of 50 IOPS per VM = 225,000 Host IOPS)
- You will need to have a read/write ratio with this as well (we will use 50:50 for these examples)
- Total Disk Storage required for all Guest VMs. (average of 125GB per VM = 562TB)
Once you have the above data, you need to decide how many Building Blocks you want to have once the entire environment is built out. There are several things to consider in determining this number:
- How often you want to be deploying additional Building Blocks (more on this below)
- Your annual budget (I'm ignoring budget for this example, but your budget may limit the size of your deployment each year)
- How many VMs you think you can deploy in a year (we'll use 2250 per year for a two year deployment)
Some of these are pretty subjective so your actual results will vary quite a bit, but based what I've seen I do have some recommendations.
- In order to take advantage of the availability isolation inherent in the Building Block approach, you'll want to start with at least two Building Blocks and then add them one or two at a time depending on how you want to spread your server farms across the infrastructure.
- Depending on the size of each Building Block you may want to keep Building Block deployments down to one every 3-6 months. That gives you ample time to build each block correctly and hopefully leaves time between deployments to monitor and adjust the Building Blocks.
That said I'd lean toward 4 to 6 Building Blocks per year. Of course this is just my opinion and your mileage may vary. For our example of 4500 VMs over 2 years @ 4 Building Blocks per year. we'll end up with 8 Building Blocks with about 562 VMs each.
The Building Block Approach <- Part 3 -> Sizing your Building Block
Build your own Private Cloud <- Part 2 -> How many Building Blocks
Since server virtualization abstracts the physical hardware from the operating systems and applications, essential for Cloud Infrastructures (also known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service), it's ideally suited for breaking down the physical infrastructure into Building Blocks. Put simply, Building Blocks are repeatable, pre-designed mixes of storage, CPU, and memory.
There are several advantages to the Building Block approach that I'll point out here:
- Rather than dropping a huge amount of capital up front on the entire infrastructure you need over the long haul, some of which will not be used at first, you can start with a smaller capital outlay today, then make multiple similarly small capital purchases only as needed. Further, when the hardware in a single Building Block reaches the end of its life (for any number of reasons), only that one Building Block will need to be refreshed at that time rather than a wholesale replacement of the entire environment.
- In an environment where virtualization is a new endeavor, sizing the compute, memory, and storage required is really an educated guess. As each Building Block is consumed, the real-world performance can be analyzed and adjusted for future Building Blocks to more closely match your specific workload.
- Building Blocks are inherently isolated which creates natural performance and availability boundaries. This can be leveraged for web and application server farms by spreading nodes of each farm across multiple Building Blocks. In the event of a catastrophic failure of one Building Block, due to major software bug affecting the cluster or the failure of an entire storage array for some reason, nodes of the server farm not hosted on the failed Building Block will be unaffected.
- The list price for storage arrays and servers goes down over time. If your growth is similar to many of my customers, where full build out of the physical infrastructure will not be required until 2-3 years after the start of the project, the acquisition cost of each individual Building Block will decrease over time, saving you money overall.
- In many cases, and due to a variety of factors, the cost to upgrade a storage array is higher than the cost to purchase the capacity with a new array. Upgrades also add complexity, complicate asset depreciation, and warranty renewals. The Building Block approach eliminates the majority of upgrades and the associated complexity.
Each Building Block can be maintained in its original build state or upgraded independent of the other building blocks so, for example, you don't have to worry about upgrading every server in your datacenter with new HBA drivers if you decide to upgrade the storage array firmware on one array. You would only need to upgrade the servers in that arrays' Building Block.
You may be thinking that your environment is not large enough to use a Building Block approach, but the more I worked on this project, the more I realized that Building Blocks can be adjusted to fit even very small environments. I'll go into that a bit more later.
Build your own Private Cloud <- Part 2 -> How many Building Blocks
Part 1 -> The Building Block Approach
As 2011 wraps up and I have a little time at home over the holidays, I've been reflecting on some of the customer projects I've worked on over the past year. Cloud computing and EMC's vision for the "Journey to the Private Cloud" have been hot topics this year and of the various projects I've worked on this past year, one stands out to me as something that could be used as a blueprint for others who want to deploy their own Private Cloud but may not know how to start.
I have been working with a customer with approximately 10,000 servers that support their business and for all intents had zero virtualization as recent as 2010. As most customers already know, they thought it would be good to begin virtualizing their environment to drive up asset utilization and flexibility while bringing down costs. In the past, they've experimented with multiple server virtualization solutions (such as VMWare ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V) with limited success and had all but abandoned the idea. A change in leadership in late 2010 brought a top-down initiative to virtualize wherever possible, but in order to instill confidence in virtualized environments within the various business units, the virtual infrastructure needed to be reliable and performant.
The customer spent the latter half of 2010 looking at their existing physical environment, finding that about 80% of the 10,000 servers were various application, file, and web servers; the remaining 20% being various database servers (mostly MS SQL). Moving an infrastructure this large into a Private Cloud model would take several years and, further adding to the challenge, the DBA teams were particularly wary about virtualizing their database servers. That said, the newly formed Virtualization and Cloud team set a goal of virtualizing the approximately 8,000 non-database servers over 36 months, starting out with dev/test and gradually adding production and tier-1 applications until only the database servers remained on physical infrastructure. They believe that if they prove success with virtualization during this first 3 years, the DBAs will be more willing to begin virtualizing their systems, plus there should be more knowledge and tools in the public domain for managing virtual database instances by then.
To accomplish all of their goals, the customer leveraged some experience that individual team members had gained from prior environments to come up with a Building Block based deployment. I worked with them to finalize the design and sizing for the each Building Block and throughout the year have helped analyze the performance of the deployed infrastructure to help determine how the Building Blocks can be optimized further. Through the next several posts, I will explain the Building Block approach, detailing the benefits, some of the considerations, and some thoughts around sizing. I hope that this information will be useful to others. The content is mostly vendor agnostic except for some example data that uses EMC specific storage best practices.
Part 1 -> The Building Block Approach
Do you have a clearly defined Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for your data? What about a clearly defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
One challenge I run in to quite often is that, while most customers assume they need to protect their data in some way, they don't have clear cut RPO and RTO requirements, nor do they have a realistic budget for deploying backup and/or other data protection solutions. This makes it difficult to choose the appropriate solution for their specific environment. Answering the above questions will help you choose a solution that is the most cost effective and technically appropriate for your business.
But how do you answer these questions?
First, let's discuss WHY you back up… The purpose of a backup is to guarantee your ability to restore data at some point in the future, in response to some event. The event could be inadvertent deletion, virus infection, corruption, physical device failure, fire, or natural disaster. So the key to any data protection solution is the ability to restore data if/when you decide it is necessary. This ability to restore is dependent on a variety of factors, ranging from the reliability of the backup process, to the method used to store the backups, to the media and location of the backup data itself. What I find interesting is that many customers do not focus on the ability to restore data; they merely focus on the daily pains of just getting it backed up. Restore is key! If you never intend to restore data, why would you back it up in the first place?
What is the Risk?
USA Today published an article in 2006 titled "Lost Digital Data Cost Businesses Billions" referencing a whole host of surveys and reports showing the frequency and cost to businesses who experience data loss.
Two key statistics in the article stand out.
- 69% of business people lost data due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or another disaster
- 40% Lost data two or more times in the last year
Flipped around, you have at least a 40% chance of having to restore some or all of your data each year. Unfortunately, you won't know ahead of time what portion of data will be lost. What if you can't successfully restore that data?
This is why one of my coworkers refuses to talk to customers about "Backup Solutions", instead calling them "Restore Solutions", a term I have adopted as well. The key to evaluating Restore Solutions is to match your RPO and RTO requirements against the solution's backup speed/frequency and restore speed respectively.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
Since RPO represents the amount of data that will be lost in the event a restore is required, the RPO can be improved by running a backup job more often. The primary limiting factor is the amount of time a backup job takes to complete. If the job takes 4 hours then you could, at best, achieve a 4-hour RPO if you ran backup jobs all day. If you can double the throughput of a backup, then you could get the RPO down to 2 hours. In reality, CPU, Network, and Disk performance of the production system can (and usually is) affected by backup jobs so it may not be desirable to run backups 24 hours a day. Some solutions can protect data continuously without running a scheduled job at all.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
Since RTO represents the amount of time it takes to restore the application once a recovery operation begins, reducing the RTO can be achieved by shortening the time to begin the restore process, and speeding up the restore process itself. Starting the restore process earlier requires the backup data to be located closer to the production location. A tape located in the tape library, versus in a vault, versus at a remote location, for example affects this time. Disk is technically closer than tape since there is no requirement to mount the tape and fast forward it to find the data. The speed of the process itself is dependent on the backup/restore technology, network bandwidth, type of media the backup was stored on, and other factors. Improving the performance of a restore job can be done one of two ways – increase network bandwidth or decrease the amount of data that must be moved across the network for the restore.
This simple graph shows the relationship of RTO and RPO to the cost of the solution as well as the potential loss.The values here are all relative since every environment has a unique profit situation and the myriad backup/restore options on the market cover every possible budget.
Improving RTO and/or RPO generally increases the cost of a solution. This is why you need to define the minimum RPO and RTO requirements for your data up front, and why you need to know the value of your data before you can do that. So how do you determine the value?
Start by answering two questions…
How much is the data itself worth?
If your business buys or creates copyrighted content and sells that content, then the content itself has value. Understanding the value of that data to your business will help you define how much you are willing to spent to ensure that data is protected in the event of corruption, deletion, fire, etc. This can also help determine what Recovery Point Objective you need for this data, ie: how much of the data can you lose in the event of a failure.
If the total value of your content is $1000 and you generate $1 of new content per day, it might be worth spending 10% of the total value ($100) to protect the data and achieve an RPO of 24 hours. Remember, this 10% investment is essentially an insurance policy against the 40% chance of data loss mentioned above which could involve some or all of your $1000 worth of content. Also keep in mind that you will lose up to 24 hours of the most recent data ($1 value) since your RPO is 24 hours. You could implement a more advanced solution that shortens the RPO to 1 hour or even zero, but if the additional cost of that solution is more than the value of the data it protects, it might not be worth doing. Legal, Financial, and/or Government regulations can add a cost to data loss through fines which should also be considered. If the loss of 24 hours of data opens you up to $100 in fines, then it makes sense to spend money to prevent that situation.
How much value does the data create per minute/hour/day?
Whether or not your data itself has value on it's own, the ability to access it may have value. For example, If your business sells products or services through a website and a database must be online for sales transactions to occur, then an outage of that database causes loss of revenue. Understanding this will help you define a Recovery Time Objective, ie: for how long is it acceptable for this database to be down in the event of a failure, and how much should you spend trying to shorten the RTO before you get diminishing returns.
If you have a website that supports company net profits of $1000 a day, it's pretty easy to put together an ROI for a backup solution that can restore the website back into operation quickly. In this example, every hour you save in the restore process prevents $42 of net loss. Compare the cost of improving restore times against the net loss per hour of outage. There is a crossover point which will provide a good return on your investment.
Your vendor will be happy when you give them specific RPO and RTO requirements.
Nothing derails a backup/recovery solution discussion quicker than a lack of requirements. Your vendor of choice will most likely be happy to help you define them but it will help immensely if you have some idea of your own before discussions start. There are many different data protection solutions on the market and each has it's own unique characteristics that can provide a range of RPO and RTO's as well as fit different budgets. Several vendors, including EMC, have multiple solutions of their own — one size definitely does not fit all. Once you understand the value of your data, you can work with your vendor(s) to come up with a solution that meets your desired RPO and RTO while also keeping a close eye on the financial value of the solution.
Short Answer: Yes!
In my dealings with customers I've been requesting performance data from their storage systems whenever I can to see how different applications and environments react to new features. Today I'm going to give you some more real-world data, straight from a customer's production EMC NS480.
I've pulled various stats out of Analyzer for this customer's Exchange server, which has 3 mail databases totaling about 1TB of mail stored on the NS480 via FibreChannel connect. Since this customer is not extremely large (similar to most of our customers) they are using this NS480 for pretty much everything from VMWare, SQL, and Exchange, to NAS, web/app content, and Business Intelligence systems. There is about 30TB of block data and another 100TB of NAS data. FASTCache is enabled for all LUNs and Pools with just 183GB of usable FASTCache space (4 x 100GB SSDs). So in this environment, with a modest amount of FASTCache and very mixed workload, how does Exchange fare?
Let's first take a look at the Exchange workload itself for a 24 hour period: (Note: There were no reads from the Exchange log LUNs to speak of so I left that out of this analysis.)
Total Read IOPS for the 3 databases: (the largest peak is a result of database maintenance jobs and the smaller peaks are due to backup jobs) Here it's tough to see due to the maintenance and backup peaks, but production IO during the work day is about 200-400IOPS. By the way, a source-deduplicating incremental-forever backup technology, such as Avamar, could drastically reduce the IO Load and duration of the nightly backup
Total Write IOPS for the 3 databases: Obviously more changes to the database occurring during the work day.
Total Write IOPS for the 3 Log files: Log data is typically cached easily in the SP cache so FAST Cache isn't terribly required here but I'm including it to show whether there is any value to using FASTCache with Exchange logs.
Now let's look at the FASTCache hit ratios for this same set of data: (average of all 3 DBs)
First, the Read Activity: Here you can see that aside from the maintenance and backup jobs, FASTCache is servicing 70-90% of the Read IOPs. Keep in mind that a FASTCache miss could still be a Cache Hit if the data is in SP Cache. What's interesting about this is that it looks like the nightly maintenance job is pushing the highest load.
And the Write Activity: The beauty of EMC's FASTCache implementation being a read/write cache, the benefit extends beyond just read IO. Here you see that FASTCache is servicing 60-80% of the writes for these Exchange Databases. That's a huge load off the backend disks.
And the Log Writes: Since Log writes are usually not a performance problem, I would say that FASTCache is not necessary here, and the average 30% hit ratio shown here is not great. If you wanted to spend the time to tune FASTCache a bit, you might consider disabling FASTCache for Log LUNs to devote the FASTCache capacity to more cache friendly workloads.
All in all you can see that for the database data, FASTCache is servicing a significant portion of the user generated workload, reducing the backend disk load and improving overall performance.
Hopefully this gives you a sense of what FASTCache could do for your Exchange environment, reducing backend disk workload for reads AND writes. I must reiterate, since an SP Cache hit is shown as a FASTCache miss, an 80% FASTCache hit ratio does not mean that 20% of the IOs are hitting disk. To illustrate this, I've graphed the sum of SP Cache Hits and FAST Cache Hits for a single database. You can see that in many cases we're hitting a total of 100% cache hits.
Most interesting is the backup window where SP Cache is really handling a huge amount of the load. This is actually due to the Prefetch algorithms kicking in for the sequential read profile of a backup, something CX/VNX is very good at.
One of the features that has been added to Analyzer (Navisphere and Unisphere) in recent versions is the ability to search for specific LUNs based on criteria. This feature is actually pretty powerful because the criteria itself is pretty flexible. For example, you can search for all LUNs attached to a specific host, or with a specific set of characters in the LUN name. In addition you can search against performance metrics like Throughput, Response Time, or LUN Utilization. This is where it gets interesting because you can look for poorly performing LUNs really quickly. In the following example, I am going to build a search that looks for LUNs that have EX in the name (since all of my Exchange server LUNs have EX in the name) that ALSO have high LUN utilization for several polling intervals.
Once you've launched Analyzer and opened an Archive, click on the binocular icon in the tool bar to bring up the search dialog.
You can choose a predefined search (a search you previously created and saved) or a new Object Based Query. In this example we are going to build a new query so select "Object Based Query" and choose All LUNs in the drop down box. If you wanted, you could narrow down the search to just Pool Based LUNs, just MetaLUNs, or Component LUNs, etc.)
Next we'll define the LUN criteria by selecting the Name property, choosing Contains, and entering the "EX" value. This will filter the search to only those LUNs that have EX in the name. Finally we'll set a threshold. In this example, I'm looking for LUNs that have a LUN Utilization value over greater than 90% for at least 10 polling samples. I could add more LUN criteria and/or more thresholds to further narrow down the results with AND or OR combinations.
Optionally, you can save the query so that it will be listed in the "Predefined Query" list in the future. Click Search and set or edit the name of the search.
After clicking OK, Analyzer will create a new tab and populate the results of the search. Once the search is complete you can graph metrics for the LUNs like normal. Here I've selected Utilization to show why this LUN matched the search criteria — note the high utilization between 2am and 7am.
You can get much more granular with your searches if you are looking for something specific, or use metrics like Response Time to look for poorly performing LUNs attached to a specific server. It's pretty flexible. I started using the search feature recently and thought others might be interested in it. Try it out and let me know what you think.
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Sorry for the delay on this next post.. Between EMC World and my 9 month old, it's been a battle for time…
Okay, so you have an EMC Unified storage system (Clariion, Celerra, or VNX) with FASTCache and you're wondering how FASTCache is helping you. Today I'm going to walk you through how to tease FASTCache performance data out of Analyzer.
I'm assuming you already have Analyzer launched and opened a NAR archive. One thing to understand about Analyzer stats as they relate to FASTCache, is that stats are gathered at the LUN level for traditional RAID Group LUNs, but for Pool based LUNs, the stats are gathered at the pool level. As a result graphing data for FASTCache differs for the two scenarios.
First we'll take a look at the overall array performance. Here we'll see how much of the write workload is being handled by FASTCache. In the SP Tab of Analyzer, select both SPs (be sure no LUNs or other objects are selected). Select Write Throughput (IO/s), and then click the clipboard icon (with I's and O's).
Launch Microsoft Excel and paste into the sheet, and then perform the text-to-column change discussed in the previous post if necessary.
Next create a formula in the D column, adding the values for both SPs into a single total. We're not going to graph it quite yet though.
Back in Analyzer, deselect the two SPs, switch to the Storage Pool Tab, right-click on the array and choose Select All -> LUNs, then Select All -> Pools.
Click on a RAID Group LUN or Pool in the tree, it doesn't matter which one, deselect Write Throughput (IO/s) and select FAST Cache Write Hits/s. In a moment, you'll end up with a graph like this.
Click the clipboard icon again to copy this data and paste it into a new sheet of the same workbook in Excel. Insert a blank column between column A and B, then create a formula to add the values from column B through ZZ (ie: =SUM(C2:ZZ2).
Then copy that formula and paste into every row of column B. This column will be our Total FAST Cache Write Hits for the whole array. Finally, click the header for Column B to select it, then copy (CTRL-C). Back to the first sheet — Paste the "Values" (123 Icon) into Column E.
Now that we have the Total Write IOPS and Total FAST Cache Write Hits in adjacent columns of the same worksheet, we can graph them together. Select both columns (D and E in my example), click Insert, and choose 2D Area Chart. You'll get a nice little graph that looks something like the following.
Since it's a 2D Area Chart, and not a stacked graph, the FASTCache Write IOPS are layered over the Total Write IOPS such that visually it shows the portion of total IOPS handled by FASTCache. Follow this same process again for Read Throughput and FASTCache Read Hits. Furthur manipulation in Excel will allow you to look at total IOPS (read and write) or drill down to individual Pools or RAID Group LUNs.
Another thing to note when looking at FASTCache stats… FAST Cache Misses are IOPS that were not handled by FASTCache, but they may still have been handled by SP Cache. So in order to get a feel for how many read IOs are actually hitting the disks, you'd actually want to subtract SP Read Cache Hits and Total FASTCache Read Hits (calculated similar to the above example) from SP Read Throughput. This is similar for Write Cache Misses as well.
I hope this helps you better understand your FASTCache workload. I'll be working on FASTVP next, which is quite a bit more involved.
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A Lenoir County man remained in the Sampson County Detention Center Wednesday, charged with myriad felonies that officers here served.
Caro Antwan Hawkins, 23, 803 N. Independence St., Kinston, was served seven additional warrants Tuesday by Sampson County Sheriff's authorities who were holding him on other charges.'
Hawkins now faces seven counts each of breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and possession of stolen goods.
He has been jailed under a $70,000 secured bond and is to make his first appearance in court on Feb. 8.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers were almost unrecognizable in the first half against Cleveland. They bounced back in a historic way after the break.
Paul George scored 27 points and the Pacers held the Cavaliers to 23 points in the second half of a 96-81 victory on Wednesday night. It was the fewest points Indiana has allowed in a half since they joined the NBA in 1976.
"We just made some adjustments to how we're going to guard them on the ball," Pacers forward David West said. "We took away their first option, took away their first initial movement, then made them go to that second round of things that they wanted to do, and they weren't as efficient as they were in the first half."
The Cavaliers couldn't build on Tuesday's win over the Los Angeles Lakers. C.J. Miles scored 28 points for the second straight game, but Kyrie Irving was held to nine points on 4-for-12 shooting in his second game back after missing 11 straight with a broken finger.
Cleveland coach Byron Scott said the Pacers' defense against Irving dictated the game.
"Once Indiana became more aggressive and tried to take the ball out of Kyrie's hands, we caved into it and we just stopped playing," Scott said.
Indiana was getting ripped — trailing by 16 at one point.
Only a late surge in the final minutes of the second quarter prevented the game from being a complete disaster for the Pacers, as they pulled to 58-52 at the break.
There wasn't much for Indiana's coaches to say at halftime — they mostly just showed film.
"They kept it short, and when they keep it short, you know what that means," George said. "It's something we have to do better. The whole team knows what we needed to get better at and that's challenging shots and really defending. We wasn't really playing defense." Continued...
Indiana bounced back in a big way and held Cleveland to its lowest-scoring half of the season.
West had 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists and George Hill added 17 points as the Pacers snapped a two-game skid. Indiana, third in the NBA in scoring defense and No. 1 in opponent field-goal percentage coming in, held the Cavaliers to 8-for-41 shooting in the second half.
Irving said the Cavaliers need to learn from their second-half failure.
"We have to learn as a young team to know how to carry a lead like we had into the second half," he said. "As the leader of this team, I have to do a better job of settling us down and making that happen."
Perhaps the most excitement in the second half came when Cleveland's Tristan Thompson hit Indiana's Ben Hansbrough with an errant elbow early in the fourth quarter and big brother Tyler stepped in and angrily protected his younger brother. Thompson was issued a flagrant foul and Ben Hansbrough made one of two free throws to give the Pacers an 83-73 lead.
The Pacers remained in control the rest of the way.
It was all Cleveland early. The Cavaliers took a 54-38 lead on a jumper by Samardo Samuels with 3:39 left in the first half. Indiana closed the half with a 14-4 run to close the gap to six.
"We were down 16, we felt we were better than that," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said. "You make a calm mental adjustment and get back in the game possession by possession."
George hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 58-57 in the first two minutes of the second half, then Hill made a reverse layup and was fouled. His free throw gave Indiana a 60-58 lead. The three-point play gave the Pacers their first lead since it was 2-0.
A 3-pointer by Hill gave the Pacers a 73-66 lead and the Cavaliers called a timeout. A putback by West in the closing seconds of the third quarter gave Indiana an 80-70 lead heading to the fourth. Continued...
Indiana held Cleveland to 4-for-23 shooting in the third quarter and outscored the Cavaliers 28-12 in the period. Hill had 10 points in the third quarter and George had nine.
Miles scored 16 points in the first quarter to help the Cavaliers take a 29-25 lead. Miles shot 4 for 7 from the field in the first 12 minutes while his teammates were 4 for 14. ... Cleveland didn't have a turnover until 1:59 remained in the second quarter. ... Pacers G Lance Stephenson left the game in the third quarter after spraining his right ankle. He did not return. ... Tyler Zeller, brother of Indiana University star Cody Zeller, fouled out with eight points for the Cavs. ... Indiana C Roy Hibbert had three blocks to notch his 16th consecutive game with multiple swats.
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OtfleUI' Ntwtptptr ; vniagfol- Freoport • Freapbrt School Olatrict • • Baldwin •--1^ School Oiauict . 1 ^ ^ 7 - •* • ' »"i—••—I ^ i -. FREEFORT, NEW YORK. tnEBlUARY25.1982 4WiYEAR.No.44 •. rs^'- FMCE25*PER D^~firX>\\\on Sayt: £S& Civilraii Crime flrtrob'^n't Hiirt"^ Three^eimfece Eveiyoiie Shoiifd Be Eyes lt)r Freepoft F.D. _j=r-/ -. , i . - FEEtghgiBrTd ' CThhreieef , *eteran Ancf Eors Of The Police .• Free port .firezpen. with a coos* 'bioed total of neariy SO yean serrice to the depaxtaoeat, have anoosiioed theifiateiitioiia tonus MINEOLA • During a recent preas conference attended by THE LEADER and other tnemt>eTs of Nassan County's-weeUy press, Nassau District Attorney Denis Dillon'Mcdie in faVor of the oon'cept of civ9ian patrols. "They can't hurt," Diflon said, describing tlieni as eyes and f o r t h e p o d t i o o o f a d r d a * ^ ^ ear* for the police department. In Detroit, said the District Attorney. cUefinjUayeM'aannnalFree. 60.000 people becaiie invblred. m > NOMINATEDTO MIUTARY ACADEMIES. Congraaaman Norman F. Lant (2nd r.) eongratulataa thraa ouUtandlrts young poopi* from Fraaport, nomlnatad by him to on* of tha Unltad SUtaa Military Acadamlaa. William Bumpoa p.) haa boon nominated for tha Air Forea AMda«tiy;WIH(am.Seanlon jaxi I.), lo tha Naval >Keadamy; and community Jaadara dioaan by poingraaaman Lant, |ra.tt«w wtalting word'from thair raapii6ttva Aoadamtaa on'.wtiathar-ttjay-hav* boiMi accaptad. Tha final choloa raau with Academy olfldala: Coblldge School Vote Set Aside Bv Commissioner port Fire Depattoseiit-wlde electiooa. The dectiooa will be held oo Thnnday. April 8. Annoandag the£r candidacy dnriag tiie past weeks were George J. MuBionand. from Vigilaiit Hos« Conqiany No. 3; Biwert Teny. from Fatriot Hoae Co. No. A; and Lee •TbdibloaU. from Hbae Co. No. 3. An three • randidatea h a v e n s in pretkMS; i;<IW3i^ertte^y-ii.<. i;..,H^--,'. •. ^.Ittl^:i£t9ia:ttsditiaia Ufpm.-'' • CO. the renmning three poaMbas ' in the April S elections WW be fined bj the Incumbents in nnooa> test«) elections: Chief ^ John Provenxano of Engine Co; No. I; First AMsiti*nt Chief - Steve Wenk of Tnck Co; No. 1; and Second Assistant* Chief • Les Fieldsa of Emergency Co. No. 9. restthiag b a 2S% dn» in repoct- . ed crime. (Eifitor'a Note: Free-port has had a. Qrime Watch ^gram. the "40.000 Fairs of Ey^." for several years. Kecent: ly. COFRONS. a ctvie group.in one section of Notdiwest Free-pofL started a OviHaa Patrol and^burgiaries in tiiat area apparently dropped in munber.) . OiOoo had achednled the Fri-djiy-.. moping.'. .February . 19,^ meeting-.^Ua CIQC$IJD jltscnas^'^ wUit tnenibeti; of local-news-' papers, matter*' ilkat 'concerned their rea<]ets...ahd crime was apparently. tlie number ' one concern. - Also present at the meeting sidd be told tlie people to write-to. -the judge and ttw resnit., be claimed, was that the burglars recdvedstiffnsentences. •• FtaefAmattd . . McGormack renewed the workings of his unit. .Every taaglaxy case goes over his desk, be said, and.be decides wlio sh<inld_m4 be jptea bargained. For aample, .McCqrmack. enlained., discns-siaiBa' 7^ntif:loca'>jprecincf .com-' -majuleralttvelieih^l^ petpetnal..^ --"tronbleiiuken.'" BALDWIN - The $175,000 sale of Baldwin'a CooUdge School property to builder/developer Ralph Cfiiaro has been blocked, at least temporarily, by New York State Education CbmraiMiooer Cordoo Ambach. In response to a petition by Baldwin resident WaOy Young, Ambach has set aside the October 21 public r^erendnm in wtdch sdiool district vx>tera apjproved the sale by a S-l vote. Young had petitioned Anabach to find the'sale iOegal, badng Ua ai-gnments on a law which had been recently passed and wUdi. reqnirea acfaoM districts to have appraisala ot properties before they aeD them. This past Monday, February .22, Young received word that Ambach bad decided in his favor. "I felt I was right, though I didn't want to be because it will cost the school district money,''Young — a custodian for the Baldwin School DUtrict — told THE ?FR thf fnllflying diy. The three candidatea fatiltfrd pflinn'*rtilffv^^^ftintK^ Asdstant Chief vrili actively.. One of the iutitntioiis DtUon campaign for tike departmestal commented on was the Bishop'a posiooD during the next six Coundl On Criminal Justice, - wecb. .Eadt of the candidates which has come dot fovoring win be featured in an in-depth humane treatment of'crindnals. McCOrmaek' also'noted tliat suspects pasnng tiirougb his office are $hown Us department's record bocdt and questioned with lK^>es'tiut-his - irfSce—and. the were Pat McCOrmaek of the ^ police win deveU^'a lead'or ob- District - Attorney's new Anii- tain some information on an open Burglary^UB!t.i:andJirryJ^j_ case or otlier crime. ferring to a possible second district- wide vote. Acconling to Ambach's ded-. sion, the Baldwin School Board made three errors before the October referendnm. Tliey failed to have property properly apprised; tliey fUled to infihn . residents about a previous appraisal; and they failed to state complete information about financing ip announcing the referendum to the public. - The last point, whidi was not even raised by Youag in his petitioo, refers to the School Board's acceptance from CUaro of a prooissoiy- oote for ooe-half the pnrdsase price secured by a mortgage for sot moatlis. Atnbacfa, in hia deddon, expiahied tliat if a school district resident wanted to acqu^nt him/ herself with all the detafla of the _psnhase andjhe tact that there was a mortgage, E~e would have to peruse a lune-page document on ^ e in the District Office. • . Last month; after Young filed his petition with Ambach, the Baldwin resident told THE LEADER that the - Board's appraisal was three years old and at that time the property was appraised at S240,000. According to Young, the distrid's Disposal of IVoperty committee had no -l3SO*tedge-of-the-yalue_otJhe. property. r I I , ,11.1 f i r m . I WnMect The School Board had not bad much time to look orrtx Ambach'a decision when it announced, through district spokespersoo Janet Netman, that it would sdiednle a meeting with its atttsrney, Lawrence Reich, to see what It will do. -According to a statement by Dr. Arnold Lnrie, SdKml Board president. Commissioner Am- . bach's dedson was based upon a new law, which went into effect after the significant parts of tt>e tonliaU had been' agreed npou. (Editor's Note: The Uw. which (Corn, on Paga IS) -"—atady la ftiture-edMona ot-JHE bailreform, etc. • — LEADER, in order to ^ve readers andreddents a detailed anmmary of the candidates. — D.V. Freeport School Budget Session Set for March 3 FREEFORT - The second {daimed budget workshop sea-sioo scheduled by the Freeport Board of Edocatioo. wiO be held Wednesday, March 3, 8 in __the_library of Atkinson School. West Seaman Avenn'el On the agenda wiU be ti>e items listed in Section 0 of the 1982-S3 Freeport Sdiool Distrid budget. Tbese^fems iodude oo-cniricnlar activitiM. alternate schools and - instxUctiotial support staff. The workshop sesnon is. open to the pobSc and there win be pubBcpartic^tiob. __ . A public hearing on the total budget UMS been scheduled for Thnnday, April 23, 8 pm, at Freeport High Sdiod. The board will vote on adoption of the budget at a special .meeting to be tield following the pnbBc hearing. The pubBc vote on the budget win take place Wednesday, May 5. Speating of reUgious leaders, DiUon asked. "Why can't th^' reach out to luds before tb^. commit crimes and teach them some values like the Golden Rule and respect for other people's lives?" Besides Cvflian Patrob. in which local reddeots patrol their neighboriiood in cars equip-' ped with CBs linked to a base station. OiUon spoke viavorably of the Guardian Angels. The relationship between tbejQnadian Angels and the T<ew York City police is "pfietty good now." said IMllon, who suggested that the question b£.explored and the —organisation nVitict-tl>e_NMs«i_ County Police Commissioner to work out. an agreement with him. such as the one^hey now have in the Cty. JaBSaKeocea Discussing public concern over the short jaU sentences some convicted burglars receive, Dillon said his office »-oul(knever plea bargain down under seven years in jaHfor boose borgUnes. He spoke of the influence people can have on jddges. In Baldwin Hart>or, be said, a nura-. ber of residents came to see him about the final disposition ot a case involving several young men apprehended and diarged with 75 burglaries in that area. He 3F6urTences have been airest-— ed, aidd McCormack. because his department managed to deter- . mine where stolen propetlj had beengdng, ~ _ •"' . One of the results'tf his department's work was setting up a. store in Hempstead where undercover police officers bought stolen property. Tlus led to 51 arrests of active burglars, almost aU of whom were convicted and who went to prison. . McCormack noted that violent crimes in Nassau Ctnnty were on the increase.' Burglaries, be said, are becoming a more . violent ~ crime and he cited severid in the Long Beadi area, where some have ended in murder. JavcaBeCrfafca- In discussing the youthful age of some criminals, .Dillon touched 00 the Family COurt set-up. "I'm ia favor of anything that would open up the Family __ ~ Court, •"fiS"said,-"paTticnlarly-in— cases of- two-time- offenders." Presently,'juveniles ate treated separately in the criminal justice set-up and their records are seal^. State Scholarship Winners Named ALBANY -Sixty-nine local h i ^ school seniors have been named Regents College Sdiotarship winners this year. Fifteen of them are stndenu at Freeport High School; 54 are at Baldwin Senior High School. Five additional •(Cont.onPaoalB)
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I'm sorry, but just because it some "[unnamed] insider" said it was so and adding it up "1+1" makes complete sense to me I would need to see some sort of evidence that presents fact and not speculation based on trusted sources (as I do not know them they aren't trusted to me). I just got caught claiming something without the proof to back it up and was nailed to the door, but that is okay as I don't treat people that way. If/when you do have the time to find that proof please either post it here or PM me. Like I said I kept 3.15 for a very long time and kept up on all the developments with the court case and CFW, but no place I have read had any sort of hard evidence why Sony really took down OtherOS. I've even emailed them for responses in the past and they claim it was due to security purposes.
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[QUOTE=Desaint333;407045]All this jailbreaking is a good thing and a bad thing...
The last good thing being that if Sony ever get's greedy, or steps out of line, you can show them that its not tollerated. ( Trust me, they have not ever once... ) Maybe not Sony per se, but games developers/publishers. How about the online pass? Why can't someone buy used or a friend lend a game? Cause of $$$ and greed. I feel in this instance that the games industry is showing its greed and therefore the whiplash is somehow justified |
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It has not been recognized as the official reason but it's pretty much the general consensus that it must be the real reason. Those sources where recognized as reliable by a lot of knowledgeable people so it's not really a question of knowing them or not, besides i cross checked the information they provided with my personal "trusted insiders" and they confirmed that it's real. Most of the discussions about this took place on irc and i witnessed and took part in some of them but i don't know if i will be able to retrieve those logs. But in the end it doesn't matter much if you believe me or not because i'm just trying to inform you about something that has already been established as a fact some time ago but i have a suggestion for you:sometimes it's simply more efficient to research on your own instead of always waiting for somebody else to provide you with some kind of proof |
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ur thread is still open u have yet to prove a point or respond to any of the reasonable arguments or better yet admit ur claims were false :P but seriously jump off ur pedestal and stop trying to make others do somthing that u were refusing to do ur self!!!
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I understand:you want something that the entire world would recognize as solid proof. Too bad that something like that can't possibly exist for something like a piece of leaked information that sony will never admit it's true and i know that any kind of "circumstantial" evidence i will provide won't be enough for you. You don't trust my word, you don't trust the sources that everyone else recognizes as reliable and you don't trust the word of people that are a lot more knowledgeable about things than you. No wait it's more like you don't trust the words from anybody else apart yourself for that matter and only get along with those that thinks the same way as you. You are in a very sad situation and to be honest i don't even know why you decided to be part of a community if you aren't even prepared to get your mistakes pointed out and corrected by others without the need of some world-recognized-irrefutable-solid-piece-of-evidence. But if you are happy then be my guest and go on with this attitude, just don't blame somebody else when half of the forum members will have something against you. No hard feelings! @Annelies Lol that image. I know that i didn't word it correctly, and that taken by itself, that phrase, it's kind of hilarious but it's still something that i and a lot of other people know it's true so i didn't bother to rephrase it. Last edited by ryant001; 08-06-2012 at 11:35 PM. |
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It's people that think like the OP here that are holding the progress of man kind back! just because someone pirates something doesnt mean the makers of it will instantly say OMFG People stole my game I'm never making another. I mean ****ing really? get real... If piracy would lead to anythig its more intrest in the hardware. pirates will pirate if there is a way simple as that. sony/ea/whoever isn't loosing jack because the person who pirated that title most likely wouldn't have bought it anyways because pirates a cheap asses....
Online mods isn't a bad thing when used in a match pre aranged by friends but they usually result in bans on consoles clearly you have never tried to cheat online with a PS3 before..... I assure you you will get band mabey not the first time but soon there after and creating cheats for a PS3 title isn't exactly easy like it is on PC dude. For that matter online gaming sucks ass anyways.... and to further point on the CFW loosing linux item..... ROFLMFAO The first jailbreak for was a dongle device put out not even remotely related to geohot. frankly linux was removed from preassure from other companies who were loosing business to sony because people wanted to use a bunch of PS3 for a network server over IBM's BMs...... and graf's work was an excelent scape goat for them to use as a cover for it. Geohots work came along much later in the road than any of this crap..... So um yeah the **** you on about? Nuff out of me if I read any more of this thread I may have to shoot myself.... the stupid **** some people have to say is just so depressing. |
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The dongle, f0f's key pwnage all came about because of geohots initial work. He essentially bashed the door down.. f0f found the keys on the kitchen table once inside. 3.41 dongle makers reversed what geohot had dumped, found the exploit and decided to make a quick buck. None of what we have today would be here without his initial first steps. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2 |
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Anyhow i love people having their own opinions and i love them having their say on the forum, even if their opinions are filled with as much poo as yours. Sony are greedy and they have stepped out of line many, many times. The malware they forced on peoples computers. The websites/businesses they forced to be closed down. The removal of OtherOS. Also piracy happens the majority of this forum does it and im sure you do too. |
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It's been 35 years since The Shining first graced bookshelves, but fans will only have to wait one more year for Stephen King's sequel to be released. Doctor Sleep, which we announced in a previous article, will now be released on September 24th, 2013. The novel will center on Dan Torrance, the grown-up protagonist from the original story. As a wanderer who finally settles down in a New Hampshire town, he works at a nursing home and uses his "shining" to help the residents pass painlessly into eternal sleep. He also must defend himself and Abra Stone, a tween girl gifted with the shining, from a roving band of supernaturals who feed off their power. Much like The Shining was adapted into the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, we can certainly expect to see some feature adaptation news of Doctor Sleep in the coming months. Hit the jump for more on King's sequel.