Month: November 2009

SAN

Running ESX4 on a Cloned Boot LUN

NetApp Reference Architect Peter Learmonth has recently published a post on how to boot multiple ESX servers from clones of a master boot LUN. This is great news for customers who prefer booting from a SAN to alternatives like ESXi auto deploy or PXE-based installs. You can read about this process, the root cause which […]

SPEC SFS2008 Verifies You Can Run Faster on Fewer Disks with PAM

NetApp is the only storage vendor focused on reducing storage hardware footprints. Evidently discussions surrounding the use of storage saving technologies in a production environment must be upsetting to the traditional storage array manufactures as anytime I discuss the technologies that enable such environments the comments sections of my posts inevitably end up reading (and […]

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