A year ago Mike Slisinger and I wanted to expand upon the impact and influence server virtualization and cloud computing were having on storage and it’s support of the evolution from silo models to …
NetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5
We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I'm very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is …
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Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here's a quick summary of what's new in version 2.1: …
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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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Poll Results – What is the Size of Your Average & Largest Datastores
You may recall on March 25th I shared that I have learned from a source what I believe to be the largest know VMware datastore. I suggested quid pro quo, you share the average size and the largest …
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Raising Awareness Around the Misalignment of Data
Today my good friend Duncan Epping surprised me by shooting me an IM notifying me that he was posting on the impact of partition misalignment and asked if I’d care to comment. Fortunately for me I had …
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