Today I wrapped up several weeks of travel which included the Charlotte VMUG conference, NetApp's Foresight engineering event, and a number of customer and technical partner meetings. During these travels a small number of individuals would use the term data deduplication as any technology which reduces the amount of storage capacity required to store a data object (file, LUN, … [Read more...] about Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage
Traditional Storage
Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data
Today my good friend Duncan Epping surprised me by shooting me an IM notifying me that he was posting on the impact of partition misalignment and asked if I’d care to comment. Fortunately for me I had time to do just that and this post is an expanded version of what I shared in the comments section at YellowBricks. I’d suggest that anyone interested begin at YellowBricks before … [Read more...] about Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data
VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge
As some of you may know if I’m not talking to someone (partner, customer, etc...) I’m probably listening to my iPhone. Besides my love for music (I’m a bass player) I listen to audiobooks, courses from the teaching company, and a half-dozen or so podcasts. Today during my flight from NC to CA (I believe we were somewhere over Kentucky) the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast … [Read more...] about VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge
Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
In part one of this series I introduced you to Transparent Storage Cache Sharing and introduced the use case of serving virtual machines and their binaries. The post received some great feedback and allowed me to realize that I wasn’t as clear as I had hoped to be in beginning this conversation. Before we continue the conversation by looking at additional use cases, I think I … [Read more...] about Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction
I expect most of my readers are familiar with Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). For those in need of a refresh, TPS increases the over all performance capabilities of an ESX/ESXi cluster by ensuring efficient use of server memory. The TPS process achieves this efficiency by eliminating redundant virtual machine memory pages by remapping any duplicate reference back to a single … [Read more...] about Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction