Recently both NetApp and EMC published VDI whitepapers with our mutual partners VMware and Cisco. Both papers are very solid and should result in robust infrastructures; however, the solutions are far from equal and I’d like to take 5 minutes of your time to share with you some interesting points of comparison. Sure the EMC paper focuses on UCS platform while the NetApp … [Read more...] about Attention CEOs: Pay $75 per Virtual Desktop for Storage
Traditional Storage
EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware? – The Conclusion
We here at NetApp have been burning the proverbial midnight oil getting ready for VMworld, and in doing so I have put off posting a number of blog entries. I trust you will be very impressed with our VMworld line up. If you can’t make the show make sure to hit our Virtualization YouTube Channel, as all demos will be posted there when the show opens. A week and a half ago … [Read more...] about EMC: The Storage Most Integrated with VMware? – The Conclusion
VMworld 2009 – Storage Integration Sneak Peek
I trust you are as excited as I am with VMworld just around the corner. In case you missed it, we have a lot going on in San Francisco. Brian Gracely has a published number of posts covering the details of our Breakout Sessions and the sessions featuring either NetApp Partners or Customers over at the Virtualization Effect. For more details click here, here, and here. If … [Read more...] about VMworld 2009 – Storage Integration Sneak Peek
VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
Welcome to the first session in a series of blog posts entitled ‘Storage 101 - Virtualization Changes Everything’ Data deduplication was originally introduced in Data ONTAP 7.2 in July of 2006 as a technology that enhanced the NetApp Disk-to-Disk (D2D) backup offerings. Coincidentally VMware released VI3 around the same time in June of 2006, and shortly thereafter customers … [Read more...] about VCE-101: Deduplication: Storage Capacity and Array Cache
Storage 101 – Virtualization Changes Everything
Updated July 12th - Syllabus revised Welcome all to Storage 101, I’ll be brief below is our syllabus and the topics we will cover leading up to VMworld. The format of these posts will begin with a high level introduction to the technology followed by all of the technical gory details. I am hoping that those who want the ‘why’ can be satisfied up front, and these who want … [Read more...] about Storage 101 – Virtualization Changes Everything