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Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
In part one of this series I introduced you to Transparent Storage Cache Sharing and introduced the use case of serving virtual machines and their binaries. The post received some great feedback and allowed...
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Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction
I expect most of my readers are familiar with Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). For those in need of a refresh, TPS increases the over all performance capabilities of an ESX/ESXi cluster by ensuring efficient...
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SPEC SFS2008 Verifies You Can Run Faster on Fewer Disks with PAM
NetApp is the only storage vendor focused on reducing storage hardware footprints. Evidently discussions surrounding the use of storage saving technologies in a production environment must be upsetting to the traditional storage array manufactures...
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Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
Last night I got caught in what I would classify as a tweet-fight with several of my chums over at EMC on the role storage arrays play within a virtual datacenter. The conversation...
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VCE 101: What’s Next with Deduplication?
Welcome to the latest post in our series entitled ‘Virtualization Changes Everything’
In our last post we discussed the CapEx savings provided by data deduplication of both production storage capacity and storage array cache. Deduplication...
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VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
Welcome to the first session in a series of blog posts entitled ‘Storage 101 - Virtualization Changes Everything’
Data deduplication was originally introduced in Data ONTAP 7.2 in July of 2006 as a technology that...
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A follow up to Marc Staimer and SearchStorage.com
Today Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting posted the article “Pros and cons of using NAS NFS with VMware.” on SearchStorage.com.
I’d like to compliment Marc on his post; I thought it was well balanced...