EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware?
My apologies for being away from the blog for a bit. I’ve been heads down either meeting with customers or working with my team as we wrap up the final details for our VMworld presentations and demos. Today I’d like to share a true story from these recent customer visits. In a number of these […]
VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?
Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’ In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication is fundamentally changing the data center and it appears that there’s more on the horizon. I’d like to share with […]
A Customer’s Findings: VMware on NetApp vs EMC
It must be ‘Brief Post Friday’ as I keep getting pinged with great info to share all the while I have several other deadlines to meet (I guess its another evening of working until midnight). I have the privilege of sharing with you the following report compiled by a rather large customer which compares the […]
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 application including the GOS settings and the data layout, and all the way down to the configuration of the ESX/ESXi server itself.
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 enhanced the NetApp Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup offerings. Coincidentally VMware released VI3 around the same time in June of 2006, and […]