Best Practices
Free Book – vSphere on NetApp Best Practices
I’m pleased to announce that NetApp is giving away published copies of our vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices book! This offer is open to the first 1,000 eligible individuals who have a shipping...
Best Practices
Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where...
Best Practices
Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data
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...
Best Practices
Cisco NetApp VMware Secure Multi-Tenancy Updates
A few quick hits this morning...While on vacation last week I missed this post on 'Virtual Stovepipes' from that I would like to share with you. I beleive it's the first blog post by...
Backup & DR
Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 is Available!
Mike Laverick has released the much-anticipated Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0 book. I’m very confident when I say there isn’t another SRM book that is as comprehensive as this one.
I’m assuming everyone knows...
Best Practices
VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 2
In yesterday's post we discussed how VI admins are becoming storage admins as an unexpected byproduct from the virtualization of our data centers. We looked at the storage provisioning process with emphasis on the...
Best Practices
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...
Best Practices
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...