I am please to share with you that this morning our new Technical Report, TR-3749: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices, has been released. I’d like to thank Mike Slisinger, Larry Touchette, and Peter Learmonth for all of their assistance in the production of this TR. I’d like to take a few moments to share some of the core enhancements covered in the report. … [Read more...] about vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
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VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
There's an update to our VI3 storage best practices technical report. There's no technical content updates to be concerned with, instead I would like to share that TR-3428 version 4.5.2 has been officially co-branded by VMware. This update is basically a quality assurance seal which states that the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have reviewed and verified the … [Read more...] about VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?
I can’t tell you how often we are asked this question and the answer has many variables including the amount of aggregated I/O of the servers being virtualized onto the datastore, the storage protocol used in connecting to the datastore, etc. … [Read more...] about What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?
I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards
I was surprised to read in the relatively recent EMC report: VMware ESX Server Optimization with EMC® Celerra® Performance Study that when it comes to aligning the partitions inside of virtual machines EMC has diametrically opposed recommendations based on the storage protocol and storage array which one deploys with VMware. I have to say that such recommendations raise a red … [Read more...] about I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards
VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update
Today we've published a minor update to our VMware on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3428. After posting the blog announcing version 4.4 I received a number of comments and emails asking to share and comment as we publish future updates, so without further adieu here's the highlights of version 4.5.1... … [Read more...] about VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update