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 […]
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 Dale Wickizer, CTO NetApp U.S. Public Sector. Dale always blows me away with his insight and continues to do so […]
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 Mike’s body of work with rtfm-ed.co.uk & SearchVMware.com and those who follow him on Twitter, but for the few whom […]
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 number tasks that a VI admin must execute. At reviewing the traditional model we introduced the new model; one jointly created […]
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 theme that thru the virtualization of the data center they were becoming quasi-storage administrators. Oh, there’s no doubt about it. The […]