As some of you may know if I’m not talking to someone (partner, customer, etc...) I’m probably listening to my iPhone. Besides my love for music (I’m a bass player) I listen to audiobooks, courses from the teaching company, and a half-dozen or so podcasts. Today during my flight from NC to CA (I believe we were somewhere over Kentucky) the VMware Communities Roundtable podcast … [Read more...] about VMware Community Podcast #85 – VMware View with John Dodge
Storage Virtualization
Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
In part one of this series I introduced you to Transparent Storage Cache Sharing and introduced the use case of serving virtual machines and their binaries. The post received some great feedback and allowed me to realize that I wasn’t as clear as I had hoped to be in beginning this conversation. Before we continue the conversation by looking at additional use cases, I think I … [Read more...] about Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction
I expect most of my readers are familiar with Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). For those in need of a refresh, TPS increases the over all performance capabilities of an ESX/ESXi cluster by ensuring efficient use of server memory. The TPS process achieves this efficiency by eliminating redundant virtual machine memory pages by remapping any duplicate reference back to a single … [Read more...] about Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction
VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 3
This is the final post in the 'VMware Admins are Storage Admins' series. In part 1 we discussed how VI admins are becoming storage admins through the virtualization of our data centers. We reviewed the traditional provisioning model, and introduced a new model designed to simplify, automate, and standardize storage operations by allowing storage admins to create resource pools … [Read more...] about VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 3
VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 2
In yesterday's post we discussed how VI admins are becoming storage admins as an unexpected byproduct from the virtualization of our data centers. We looked at the storage provisioning process with emphasis on the number tasks that a VI admin must execute. At reviewing the traditional model we introduced the new model; one jointly created by NetApp and VMware engineering and … [Read more...] about VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 2