Vaughn Stewart
Data Perspectives from Clouds to Analytics
At VMworld 2009 attendees were able to purchase the first book ever published by NetApp in the VMworld bookstore. This book was NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices. Since then the book …
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Historically NetApp has had a very different vision regarding the value storage array. One of the core values follows along the lines of: In order to be truly valuable, advanced storage features must …
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I'm feverishly working to wrap up my edits on version 2.0 on TR-3749 - NetApp and VMware vSphere: Storage Best Practices, and unable to get to my blog queue (to those who I owe a post, I thank you for …
NetApp is the only storage vendor focused on reducing storage hardware footprints. Evidently discussions surrounding the use of storage saving technologies in a production environment must be …
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This is the second installment of a two-part post focusing on the thin provisioning capabilities native to vSphere. If you haven’t read Part I - The Basics, I’d suggest you do so before proceeding. …
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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 …
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