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What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?

June 23, 2009Best Practices, Performance, SAN1 commentVaughn Stewart

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.

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I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards

June 18, 2009Alignment, Best Practices, Disk-Based Arrays, Performance, Storage Virtualization, Traditional Storage18 commentsVaughn Stewart

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…

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A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com

March 18, 2009Compression, Deduplication, Performance, Tech Trends, Traditional Storage1 commentVaughn Stewart

Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com. I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced and clearly communicated. As I read the article I felt compelled to expand upon his suggestion that NAS may possibly…

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