Storage

Cheap to Store Does Not Mean Cheap to Recover

Recovery Point field notes on Veeam unstructured data backup, NAS archive, Instant File Share Recovery, metadata, retention, licensing, and v13.1.

Immutable Does Not Automatically Mean Recoverable

A Recovery Point field note on why immutable backups must be combined with threat detection, identity recovery, isolation, application validation, and controlled return to service.

Storage Services in Depth: Compression, Deduplication, and EC-X on AOS 7.3

This is article 04 of the Nutanix Cluster Design Fundamentals series, targeting AOS 7.3 with AHV 10.3 and Prism Central 7.3. NCD-03 walked the

Storage Architecture and the Distributed Storage Fabric

NCD-03 in the Nutanix Cluster Design Fundamentals series, baselined to AOS 7.3, AHV 10.3, and Prism Central 7.3. This article takes apart the Distributed

Proxmox Storage Architecture: ZFS, Ceph, LVM-thin, NFS, iSCSI, and Snapshots as Volume Chains

Article 3 in the Proxmox VE Cluster Design Fundamentals for v9.1 series. PVCD-01 covered the cluster control plane; PVCD-02 covered the network. This article covers

Storage Architecture for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025: SAN, S2D, SOFS, and Campus Cluster

Article 3 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. Article 1 covered the design pillars. Article 2 covered networking. This article covers storage