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 sold nearly 5,000 copies. To put the sales figures in perspective, … [Read more...] about NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices Book Update
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 6th.I'm honored to finish in the top 10 ratings of two industry polls … [Read more...] about The Top 10 Storage Vendor Blogs
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. I mean, EMC hasn't published a SPEC benchmark in years. (The last EMC SPEC … [Read more...] about EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans
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. Thank you to those who included this blog in their … [Read more...] about The Top VMware & Virtualization Blogs of 2010
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 storage is simply storage. One of the challenges … [Read more...] about Creating a Restricted vCenter Role for SnapDrive