Mike Laverick visits to discuss the new features in the NetApp Virtual Storage Console plug-in for VMware vCenter Server. We highlight the new 'Migrate and Optimize' capability that can non-disuptively correct file system misalignment inside of VMs! … [Read more...] about Vendorwag with Mike Laverick: New Features in the Virtual Storage Console 4.0
Best Practices
Thoughts on Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5
This article originally appears in Tech OnTap - If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing to Tech OnTap. NetApp recently published an update to our storage best practices for VMware® that highlights the new capabilities of VMware vSphere® 5 and NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8. This updated technical report (TR) covers a number of new capabilities from VMware such as Storage DRS, … [Read more...] about Thoughts on Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5
NetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5
We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I'm very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is highlighted by the addition of support for vSphere 5. … [Read more...] about NetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5
Current Status, An Update, and a Look to the Future of Alignment
It has been one year to the date since the last time I authored a post on the topic of partition alignment. I think its fair to state this issue has gained awareness over the last year thanks to posts from a number of industry experts such as Duncan Epping, Aaron Delp, and Chad Sakac just to name a few. However alignment remains an open issue, which is unfortunate for … [Read more...] about Current Status, An Update, and a Look to the Future of Alignment
VMware HA, VM-Host Affinity Rules, and how they apply with Metrocluster
Duncan Epping of VMware and Yellow-Bricks has posted a nice write up on running VMware on a NetApp MetroCluster with VM-Host Affinity Rules (new in vSphere 4.1). In summary this new capability allows one to restrict the boundaries of HA capabilities to a limited number of ESX/ESXi hosts within a HA cluster for a set of VMs.As you may imagine, this works very well when your … [Read more...] about VMware HA, VM-Host Affinity Rules, and how they apply with Metrocluster