EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans
I want to tell you a story about how my evening went the other night. I hope you don’t mind a narrative. Monday I received an email from a friend in the VMware community, “Did you see the Register, it’s unreal, EMC arrays crushed the SPEC benchmarks!” As you’d assume, this news got my attention. […]
New VMware and NetApp Protocol Performance Report
Many of you have been asking when NetApp & VMware update TR-3697 (multiprotocol performance comparison paper covering VI3) to include vSphere. It is my pleasure to share that as of this morning we have jointly released a new report TR-3808. The paper compares the performance of FC, iSCSI, and NFS connected storage along with the […]
VCE-101 Thin Provisioning Part 2 – Going Beyond
This is the second installment of a two-part post focusing on the thin provisioning capabilities native to vSphere. If you haven’t read Part I – The Basics, I’d suggest you do so before proceeding. We’ve covered a lot of content which you really should have a solid grasp of before proceeding. In part I, I […]
A Follow-up on HP TechDay 2009 with an Invitation for You!
This week HP demonstrated several of their technology offerings to the storage community, and as a part of this event HP provided a hands on lab where attendees to 'kick the tires' of their storage technology offerings. As a part for this lab attendees were able to complete the same tasks with storage arrays and […]
vSphere on NetApp Book Available at VMworld
This morning the VMworld bookstore opened and for the first time NetApp customers are able purchase a NetApp technical book! Early reports state that sales have been solid, so if you’re interested in a copy I’d suggest you grab one soon. Should you miss your opportunity to grab one the books will be available for […]