VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 1
Do you recall the post I published in September of 2009 titled “VMworld 2009 – Thoughts from the show“? If you read this post you may recall that many VI Admins shared a recurring theme that thru the virtualization of the data center they were becoming quasi-storage administrators. Oh, there’s no doubt about it. The […]
Thoughts from day 1 of the VMware Partner Exchange
Yesterday the VMware Partner Exchange 2010 kicked off. For those of you unfamiliar with VMware Partner Exchange, or PEX, it is the annual virtualization event designed especially for VMware Partners focused on partner education and enablement. This year’s event is being attended by approximately 2,500 senior executives, sales professionals, technical experts, value add resellers, OEM […]
NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices Book Update
At VMworld 2009 attendees were able to purchase the first book ever published by NetApp in the VMworld bookstore. This book was NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices. Since then the book has been a huge success. I was very surprised today to learn that since the book’s release on August 31st, it has […]
The Top 10 Storage Vendor Blogs
Continuing with catching up from the topics that I didn’t get to post over the past week and a half… Last week Storage Monkeys announced the results of their Top Storage Vendor Blog poll. NetApp was well represented with three bloggers placing in the top 10. Val placed 5th, Dave 8th, and yours truly finished […]
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. […]