New vSphere 4.1 Report: Measuring SAN & NAS Performance
NetApp and VMware performance engineering have completed a new storage performance technical report, TR-3916. This new report provides the relative I/O performance available from SAN and NAS storage protocols with vSphere 4.1 and a NetApp FAS array. The testing in the new TR-3916 is a leap forward from our previous reports as it includes results […]
Thoughts on 2011 – Technical Trends for Clouds
Recently, a number of us at NetApp were asked to share our thoughts around our expectations for 2011. The topics shared by thought leaders at NetApp from the likes of Val Bercovici to Jay Kidd ran the gamut from global economic conditions to ITaaS offerings to object-oriented storage architectures. As one might expect, the thoughts […]
Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
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:
NFS, VMware, and Unintended Consequences!
When it comes to storage interconnects for VMware deployments I’m rather biased; unified multi-protocol storage platforms like NetApp FAS should be the ONLY consideration for any sizable installation. Unified multi-protocol platforms allow for customers to receive the benefits of both NAS (NFS) and SAN (FC, FCoE, iSCSI) based connectivity from a single array. Once one […]
FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
I’d like to ask you, do you think the following statements are generally considered to be true? Virtualization is software, and hardware is simply hardware RAID10 out performs all other RAID types that provide data protection (redundancy) Fibre Channel provides greater I/O performance than NFS for virtualized workloads Deduplicated data sets perform slower than […]