I’m pleased to announce that NetApp is giving away published copies of our vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices book! This offer is open to the first 1,000 eligible individuals who have a shipping address in the US or Canada. The vSphere on NetApp book has been extremely popular and now is your chance to scoop one for free! This is the same book currently available on … [Read more...] about Free Book – vSphere on NetApp Best Practices
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End-To-End FCoE: ONLY available from Cisco, NetApp, & VMware
Today the Imagine Virtually Anything Alliance (IVA) of Cisco, NetApp, and VMware announced the industry’s first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware cloud deployments and virtual infrastructures.This certification is a significant milestone in the evolution and maturation of FCoE and converged 10Gb Ethernet networks. The adoption of this … [Read more...] about End-To-End FCoE: ONLY available from Cisco, NetApp, & VMware
Poll Results – What is the Size of Your Average & Largest Datastores
You may recall on March 25th I shared that I have learned from a source what I believe to be the largest know VMware datastore. I suggested quid pro quo, you share the average size and the largest size of your datastores and in exchange I'd share what I've learned. First, I'd like to thank everyone who participated, we had 326 share their averages and 253 share their largest. … [Read more...] about Poll Results – What is the Size of Your Average & Largest Datastores
Quick Poll – What is the Size of Your Average & Largest Datastores
We commonly get asked for guidelines sizing VMFS and NFS datastores. I have learned from a source what I believe to be the largest deployed VMware datastore. I'll make you a deal, I'll share with you the size and type of datastore if you will share with me the average size of your datastores and the size of your largest datastores. Fair enough? What is the average size … [Read more...] about Quick Poll – What is the Size of Your Average & Largest Datastores
VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 3
This is the final post in the 'VMware Admins are Storage Admins' series. In part 1 we discussed how VI admins are becoming storage admins through the virtualization of our data centers. We reviewed the traditional provisioning model, and introduced a new model designed to simplify, automate, and standardize storage operations by allowing storage admins to create resource pools … [Read more...] about VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 3