Proficient Solutions, Inc. (soon to be R3Ware)

I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working with Microsoft’s storage management enhancements.  These include the Virtual Disk Service (VDS), Multi-path I/O (MPIO), iSCSI, iSNS, and the Volume Shadow-copy Service (VSS).  If you’re not familiar with these don’t worry.  Use your favorite search engine or the Microsoft corporate site to learn more.  They are [...]

I’ve been spending some of my time implementing the storage vendor supplied widget that fits into Microsoft’s MPIO solution.  MPIO is short for Multi-path I/O.  What is that?  It is the ability to have more than one physical connection to your storage device.  Why would you want that?  For redundancy and performance.  The concept and [...]

There used to be quite a bit of pain involved in creating a robust installation process for a multi-architecture device driver (x86, x64, IA64).  But things have advanced over the years and I feel compelled to recommend my favorite; WiX plus DPInst.
WiX or Windows Installer XML (WiX) tool-set is a great open source project which [...]