North Carolina System Administrators

This presentation will explore the considerations for implementing Thin Provisioning in a SAN environment. We will discuss the options and monitoring tools available to the administrator to deploy and maintain the thinly provisioned storage with as little worry as possible.

Specific topics will include:

• How-to and when to use specific options when creating NetApp Flexvols and LUNs
• Additive benefits of leveraging advanced efficiency features
• Compounding effect of thin deployments on Virtual and Dev/Test workloads
• Host-specific tools and considerations for improving SAN efficiency
• Competitive landscape
• Question and Answer Free-for-All

Jeremy LeBlanc is an Enterprise Systems Engineer for NetApp based in RTP, NC. He joined NetApp in June of 2008 as a SAN Product and Partner Engineer before assuming his current role in November of 2010. Jeremy attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1992-1996. He began his career in technology as a part-time AS/400 Systems Administrator for the radiology department of the Worcester, MA Memorial Hospital system. In 1996, he moved permanently into the technology provider/vendor space as an implementation and support specialist with Transition Systems Inc., a healthcare software provider in Boston, MA. Upon leaving TSI, Jeremy became a development, implementation and support jack-of-all-trades for the banking software start-up, Politzer & Haney, Inc. of Newton, MA. In January of 1999, he joined EMC as a Subject Matter Expert for AS400/iSeries integration with EMC storage platforms -- eventually serving as the Global Practice Manager of iSeries Solutions for EMC Professional Services. In 2004, Jeremy became an Operations Delivery Manager in EMC's newly formed Storage Managed Services business unit. In this role he architected (and occasionally implemented) SAN and NAS solutions to meet customer defined service level requirements and assembled and managed the teams of administrative resources for the on-going delivery and support of those environments. After seven years with EMC, and prior to relocating to North Carolina to join NetApp, Jeremy was a Solutions Architect for Corporate Technologies Inc., Burlington, MA -- a systems integrator with a broad technology portfolio. In that role he designed large and small customer data center solutions -- encompassing staffing projects to software to storage and everything in-between.

A refugee from New England's snowy winters and generally unpleasant weather, Jeremy now makes his home in Holly Springs, NC with his wife Kate and their two children, Amelia (age 7) and Calvin (age 4).

Slides for Bruce Clounie's May 2011 presentation on Cisco UCS: A New Approach to Server Provisioning are now available on the Past Meetings page.

Slides for John Conway's April 2011 presentation on VCE's Vblock Infrastructure Platform are now available on the Past Meetings page.

Slides for Simon Karpen's March 2011 presentation on High-Availability Low-Dollar Load Balancing are now available on the Past Meetings page.

Slides for Jason Schroeder's February 2011 presentation on Oracle Solaris 11 Express are now available on the Past Meetings page.

Slides for Craig Cook's November 2010 presentation on Strategies for Job Seeking are now available on the Past Meetings page.

Slides for Aaron Joyner's October 2010 presentation on Monitoring are now available on the Past Meetings page.

We have some things in the works. But, if you have any ideas or suggestions for presentations or topics, please contact the Steering Committee!