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VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts

May 14, 2011 by Vaughn Stewart 1 Comment

Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I believe part of the reason these two sessions were so highly rated was that they both presented the role and future direction of storage in a shared cloud infrastructure from multiple … [Read more...] about VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts

Current Status, An Update, and a Look to the Future of Alignment

April 8, 2011 by Vaughn Stewart 29 Comments

  It has been one year to the date since the last time I authored a post on the topic of partition alignment. I think its fair to state this issue has gained awareness over the last year thanks to posts from a number of industry experts such as Duncan Epping, Aaron Delp, and Chad Sakac just to name a few. However alignment remains an open issue, which is unfortunate for … [Read more...] about Current Status, An Update, and a Look to the Future of Alignment

Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data

April 8, 2010 by Vaughn Stewart 12 Comments

Today my good friend Duncan Epping surprised me by shooting me an IM notifying me that he was posting on the impact of partition misalignment and asked if I’d care to comment. Fortunately for me I had time to do just that and this post is an expanded version of what I shared in the comments section at YellowBricks. I’d suggest that anyone interested begin at YellowBricks before … [Read more...] about Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data

I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards

June 18, 2009 by Vaughn Stewart 18 Comments

I was surprised to read in the relatively recent EMC report: VMware ESX Server Optimization with EMC® Celerra® Performance Study that when it comes to aligning the partitions inside of virtual machines EMC has diametrically opposed recommendations based on the storage protocol and storage array which one deploys with VMware. I have to say that such recommendations raise a red … [Read more...] about I/O Efficiency and Alignment – the Cloud Demands Standards

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Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart

VP of Global Technology Alliances at Pure Storage.

Product strategy & technical story teller.

Imported from Detroit, refined in Silicon Valley.

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