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 as anytime I discuss the technologies that enable such environments the comments sections of my posts inevitably end up reading (and … [Read more...] about SPEC SFS2008 Verifies You Can Run Faster on Fewer Disks with PAM
Disk-Based Arrays
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 was pretty intense and at one point I posted the following string of tweets… @sakacc @chuckhollis – Guys EMC & NetApp just look at virtualization differently. Allow me to explain… @sakacc … [Read more...] about Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
A “Multivendor Post” on using iSCSI with VMware vSphere
One of the most popular posts we’ve ever done was the original ‘Multivendor Post’ to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware that focused on the operation of the software iSCSI initiator in ESX 3.5 with several iSCSI targets from multiple vendors. There’s been a lot of demand for a follow-up, so without further ado, here’s a multivendor collaborative effort on an update, … [Read more...] about A “Multivendor Post” on using iSCSI with VMware vSphere
Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage
Recently both NetApp and EMC published VDI whitepapers with our mutual partners VMware and Cisco. Both papers are very solid and should result in robust infrastructures; however, the solutions are far from equal and I’d like to take 5 minutes of your time to share with you some interesting points of comparison. Sure the EMC paper focuses on UCS platform while the NetApp … [Read more...] about Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage
EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware? – The Conclusion
We here at NetApp have been burning the proverbial midnight oil getting ready for VMworld, and in doing so I have put off posting a number of blog entries. I trust you will be very impressed with our VMworld line up. If you can’t make the show make sure to hit our Virtualization YouTube Channel, as all demos will be posted there when the show opens. A week and a half ago … [Read more...] about EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware? – The Conclusion