EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans
I want to tell you a story about how my evening went the other night. I hope you don’t mind a narrative. Monday I received an email from a friend in the VMware community, “Did you see the Register, it’s unreal, EMC arrays crushed the SPEC benchmarks!” As you’d assume, this news got my attention. […]
The Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs of 2010
Eric @ vSphere-land has tallied the votes and released the results of the top VMware and virtualization bloggers poll. This list is comprised of the who’s who in virtualization, and I’m honored to be included. Kudos to the winners, the posts on these blogs inform and share the information that keeps our data centers evolving. […]
Creating a Restricted vCenter Role for SnapDrive
Historically NetApp has had a very different vision regarding the value storage array. One of the core values follows along the lines of: In order to be truly valuable, advanced storage features must be made available to the system and in many occasions the application administrative teams. In the absence of this goal, we believe […]
New VMware and NetApp Protocol Performance Report
Many of you have been asking when NetApp & VMware update TR-3697 (multiprotocol performance comparison paper covering VI3) to include vSphere. It is my pleasure to share that as of this morning we have jointly released a new report TR-3808. The paper compares the performance of FC, iSCSI, and NFS connected storage along with the […]
2009 : A Blog in Review
I’m feverishly working to wrap up my edits on version 2.0 on TR-3749 – NetApp and VMware vSphere: Storage Best Practices, and unable to get to my blog queue (to those who I owe a post, I thank you for your patience). Blog posts often take a considerable amount of time with many finishing in […]