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Best Practices
How Heavy is your ESX Load?
I can’t tell you how often we are asked for tips around optimizing the performance of virtualized applications. Resolving performance related issues can require investigating a number of variables ranging from the virtualized...
Data Reduction
VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
Welcome to the first session in a series of blog posts entitled ‘Storage 101 - Virtualization Changes Everything’
Data deduplication was originally introduced in Data ONTAP 7.2 in July of 2006 as a technology that...
Backup & DR
vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
I am please to share with you that this morning our new Technical Report, TR-3749: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices, has been released. I’d like to thank Mike Slisinger, Larry Touchette, and...
Cloud Computing
Everything Old is New Again
I’ve been saying ‘everything which is old is new again’ over the past few years as it is very evident within the server virtualization landscape. Well low and behold Google announces plans to...
Best Practices
VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
There's an update to our VI3 storage best practices technical report. There's no technical content updates to be concerned with, instead I would like to share that TR-3428 version 4.5.2 has been officially...
Tech Trends
Storage 101 – Virtualization Changes Everything
Updated July 12th - Syllabus revised
Welcome all to Storage 101, I’ll be brief below is our syllabus and the topics we will cover leading up to VMworld. The format of these posts will...
Unified Storage
The Epiphany – I Had One, You Want One?
Recently I was visiting customers and prospects in the North East and during one of our meetings the customer stated, “…what NetApp is doing, in terms of storage virtualization, make us feel like NetApp...
Best Practices
What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?
I can’t tell you how often we are asked this question and the answer has many variables including the amount of aggregated I/O of the servers being virtualized onto the datastore, the storage protocol...