I am please to share with you that this morning our new Technical Report, TR-3749: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices, has been released. I’d like to thank Mike Slisinger, Larry Touchette, and Peter Learmonth for all of their assistance in the production of this TR. I’d like to take a few moments to share some of the core enhancements covered in the report. … [Read more...] about vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
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VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
There's an update to our VI3 storage best practices technical report. There's no technical content updates to be concerned with, instead I would like to share that TR-3428 version 4.5.2 has been officially co-branded by VMware. This update is basically a quality assurance seal which states that the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have reviewed and verified the … [Read more...] about VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?
I can’t tell you how often we are asked this question and the answer has many variables including the amount of aggregated I/O of the servers being virtualized onto the datastore, the storage protocol used in connecting to the datastore, etc. … [Read more...] about What’s the right LUN size for a VMFS datastore?
VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update
Today we've published a minor update to our VMware on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3428. After posting the blog announcing version 4.4 I received a number of comments and emails asking to share and comment as we publish future updates, so without further adieu here's the highlights of version 4.5.1... … [Read more...] about VI3 on NetApp Best Practices Update
vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN
With today’s release of vSphere, VMware has introduced numerous new features and technologies all designed to advance the virtual evolution of our data centers. With this release VMware and their storage alliance partners have delivered Plug-n-Play SAN storage connectivity. As you begin downloading the final bits, refreshing your labs and planning your upgrade path to vSphere … [Read more...] about vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN