A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual NFS customers using VMware
We were quite a bit surprised to see how popular our “Multivendor iSCSI” post was. The feedback was overwhelming and very supportive of industry leaders partnering to ensure customer’s success with VMware. While writing that post, we (Vaughn Stewart from NetApp and Chad Sakac from EMC) discussed following up the iSCSI post with one focused […]
VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #48
Yesterday Chris Gebhardt and I had the privilege of being guests of John Troyer on episode 48 of the VMware Communities Podcast. On the podcast we discussed numerous topics regarding storage with VMware including Multipathing, performance, storage virtualization, DR, and backup and recovery.
vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN
With today’s release of vSphere, VMware has introduced numerous new features and technologies all designed to advance the virtual evolution of our data centers. With this release VMware and their storage alliance partners have delivered Plug-n-Play SAN storage connectivity. As you begin downloading the final bits, refreshing your labs and planning your upgrade path to […]
Site Recovery Manager: It’s Not Just for VMs
A key goal at NetApp is advancing the value of storage in the virtual data center from the traditional model of highly available storage to a more advanced virtual object oriented model. This approach is unified in nature as it provides the traditional functions of high availability, high performance, and the traditional storage provisioning of […]
A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com
Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com. I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced and clearly communicated. As I read the article I felt compelled to expand upon his suggestion that NAS may possibly […]