Introducing FlashBlade: Cloud Scale, All-Flash Data Platform
nowhere Today Pure Storage announced FlashBlade, a truly innovative advancement in All-Flash storage technology that will revolutionize the use of capacity-optimized storage platforms with traditional and emerging workloads. Just imagine what you could accomplish from a storage platform that delivers the performance of flash and PBs of elastic scalability in 4 rack units for less than $1 […]
Melbourne VMUG UserCon 2015: vSphere Storage Best Practices
Recently I had th fortune to join my good friend Chad Sakac in co-presenting a keynote session at the Sydney and Melbourne UserCons. We delivered a condensed version of the VMworld 2014 session, ‘vSphere Storage Best Practices: Next-Gen Storage Technologies’ (STO2496). This secheduled 50 minute session imfamously went on for nearly 90 minutes at the San Francisco event! […]
VMware VVols: It’s time to revisit the SAN and NAS debate
Which is better with VMware, SAN or NAS storage? This simple question sparked numerous debates throughout the IT industry during the formative and hyper-growth years of VMware. The conversation spanned performance concerns, dove into operational trade-offs and more importantly defined a new set of capabilities and requirements which have led us to VVols. For me […]
VMware VVols: next-gen storage goes back to the future
Storage has been an ever changing and evolving center of innovation propelled in part by the infrastructure changes VMware and cloud computing drove into the data center. This week at VMworld 2014, VMware showcased Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Virtual Volumes (VVols), two areas of storage innovation. VSAN provides the storage element within the new EVO […]
VMware Updates Best Practices for vSphere on NFS
VMware with support form their storage alliance partners NetApp, EMC and HDS has updated their Best Practices for deploying vSphere with NFS datastores. The document provides direction in areas that are common among the NFS storage vendors . Content includes networking configuration options, interoperability with vSphere components and a number of advanced settings. The paper […]