This week’s VMware Communities Roundtable featured one of my favorite people at VMware, Paul Manning who spoke on thin provisioning. This topic is the inspiration for today’s VCE post. Reducing storage costs is top of mind and it's gonna take some time covering thin provisioning so let’s begin! Virtualizing a Datacenter I am not exaggerating when I share with you that … [Read more...] about VCE-101 Thin Provisioning Part 1 – The Basics
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Demos from the HP TechDay 2009 Follow-Up are Live!
My apologies to all for the delay, our original intentions to get the audio and video from the October 6th event were met with multiple challenges ranging from having a high quality video recording without audio, to a crystal clear audio recording containing an audio duplex issue, and being unaware of the YouTube 10 minute limit on the length of videos. Luckily for us WebEx … [Read more...] about Demos from the HP TechDay 2009 Follow-Up are Live!
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 management tools from EMC and NetApp. These types of … [Read more...] about A Follow-up on HP TechDay 2009 with an Invitation for You!
Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
Last night I got caught in what I would classify as a tweet-fight with several of my chums over at EMC on the role storage arrays play within a virtual datacenter. The conversation was pretty intense and at one point I posted the following string of tweets… @sakacc @chuckhollis – Guys EMC & NetApp just look at virtualization differently. Allow me to explain… @sakacc … [Read more...] about Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
VMworld 2009 – Thoughts from the show
It’s been two weeks since VMworld 2009 concluded. I believe the show was an overwhelming success for VMware and their ecosystem partners. I believe this year’s event demonstrated that VMware was executing on their strategy to be the leader in the virtualization of the data center through the refinement of numerous technologies, enhancements, and partnerships. As there has … [Read more...] about VMworld 2009 – Thoughts from the show