SMB System Architecture Link Blast
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Like RAID discussions, the discussions around inverted pyramid architectures, using mainframe architectures, when SANs are appropriate, how to choose storage and cluster types, what hypervisors make sense and so on are so common that having a collection of resources in one place makes sense as assembling this list time after time is error prone and time consuming.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/6190/redundancy-is-never-a-goal-reliability-is-a-goal-redundancy-is-a-tool/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/the-inverted-pyramid-of-doom/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/07/replicated-local-storage/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/when-to-consider-a-san/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/02/comparing-san-and-nas/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2016/06/the-emperors-new-storage/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/02/slow-os-drives-fast-data-drives/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/11/the-weakest-link-how-chained-dependencies-impact-system-risk/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/07/it-worked-for-me/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/08/choosing-a-storage-type/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/05/when-no-redundancy-is-more-reliable/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/9796/how-reliable-is-your-server/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/8822/why-dual-controllers-is-not-a-risk-mitigation-strategy-alone/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/8821/risk-3-2-1-stock-inverted-pyramid-design/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/8743/risk-single-server-versus-the-smallest-inverted-pyramid-design/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/8090/how-does-local-storage-offer-high-availability/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/6653/is-this-a-single-point-of-failure-or-spof/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/6634/the-inverted-pyramid-of-doom-challenge/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/1772/why-anecdotes-fail/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/25/mainframe-architectural-pattern-for-smb-it-scott-alan-miller-speaking-at-spicecorps-dfw-2012/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/10213/the-smb-two-server-dilema-what-to-do
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11324/scott-alan-miller-smb-system-architectural-patterns