This just in, I'm very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 - Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco …
vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
What began in late 2005 with Vanderpool continued today with the release of vSphere 4.1…Vanderpool was the code name of Intel’s Virtualization Technology of x86 (or VT-x), which introduced extended …
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VMworld 2010 Session ‘Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge’ with HP, EMC, and NetApp
Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I haven't …
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 …
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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 …
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VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 1
Do you recall the post I published in September of 2009 titled "VMworld 2009 – Thoughts from the show"? If you read this post you may recall that many VI Admins shared a recurring theme that thru the …
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