Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Way back at VMworld 2008 NetApp announced our 50% storage savings guarantee for virtual data centers. This guarantee basically stated that running VMware on NetApp would reduce one’s storage requirements by half and if we did not, the remaining storage was on us. At the time these storage savings were powered by our block-level data […]
vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
What began in late 2005 with Vanderpool continued today with the release of vSphere 4.1… Vanderpool was the code name of Intel’s Virtualization Technology of x86 (or VT-x), which introduced extended page tables and enabled multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on an x86 computer in a safe and efficient manner. VT-x was the first […]
Regarding the Posting of Comments
I refrained as long as I could, but unfortunately the spammers have prevailed. This week I have enabled comment moderation as a means to stop the spamming of my blogs comment section. I will make every effort to minimize the delay between comments being submitted and when they post.
Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where each is best suited to be deployed. I’d like to thank all that chimed in to share their thoughts and knowledge […]