We were quite a bit surprised to see how popular our “Multivendor iSCSI” post was. The feedback was overwhelming and very supportive of industry leaders partnering to ensure customer’s success with VMware. While writing that post, we (Vaughn Stewart from NetApp and Chad Sakac from EMC) discussed following up the iSCSI post with one focused on deploying VMware over NFS. The most … [Read more...] about A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual NFS customers using VMware
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VMware on NetApp Best Practices Update
As one might imagine Several of us within NetApp receive a fair amount of feedback around the content in our VMware on NetApp Best Practices Technical Report, TR-3428. A few of the areas where we receive a large amount of inquiry are related to the frequency of the updates to the document and requests for notification of when updates are posted. I’d like to use this post … [Read more...] about VMware on NetApp Best Practices Update
The World is Taking Notice
I am rather excited to see Pushan Rinnen and the good folks at Gartner tackle the subject of storage choices with VMware in their recent report “Choosing Network-Attached Storage for VMware: What You Should Know” (Gartner report ID G00159391 published July 16th, 2008). I’d like to share with you a few highlights from this report: “Gartner found that most adoption of NFS … [Read more...] about The World is Taking Notice
Welcome…
We all have friends, family, and coworkers who operate on different social timelines. Some of them arrive to an event early, others right on time, and a few consistently arrive ‘fashionably late’ (like it’s ingrained within their DNA). I guess I fall into this later category, as today is the first day of the rest of my life in the blogosphere. … [Read more...] about Welcome…