Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here's a quick summary of what's new in version 2.1: … [Read more...] about Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
Best Practices
An Important VMworld Announcement
This just in, I'm very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 - Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco and Copenhagen.Needless to say I'm honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we've already begun creating and compiling content. This session will … [Read more...] about An Important VMworld Announcement
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 address in the US or Canada. The vSphere on NetApp book has been extremely popular and now is your chance to scoop one for free! This is the same book currently available on … [Read more...] about Free Book – vSphere on NetApp 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 each is best suited to be deployed.I’d like to thank all that chimed in to share their thoughts and knowledge in the comments section of this post. I believe … [Read more...] about Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
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 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