Today the Imagine Virtually Anything Alliance (IVA) of Cisco, NetApp, and VMware announced the industry’s first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware cloud deployments and virtual infrastructures.This certification is a significant milestone in the evolution and maturation of FCoE and converged 10Gb Ethernet networks. The adoption of this … [Read more...] about End-To-End FCoE: ONLY available from Cisco, NetApp, & VMware
iPad NAS Access for NetApp SMB / CIFS
After sharing that I picked up an Apple iPad a number of readers asked how they could connect to a NetApp array via SMB (or formerly known as CIFS). In June some at NetApp engaged with the developers at Stratospherix and today I'm happy to share that Stratopherix FileBrowser 1.5 has added support for SMB access with NetApp arrays!This functionality significantly extends the … [Read more...] about iPad NAS Access for NetApp SMB / CIFS
Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
Way back at VMworld 2008 NetApp announced our 50% storage savings guarantee for virtual data centers. This guarantee basically stated that running VMware on NetApp would reduce one’s storage requirements by half and if we did not, the remaining storage was on us.At the time these storage savings were powered by our block-level data deduplication and thin provisioning of LUNs … [Read more...] about Myth Busting: Storage Guarantees
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 page tables and enabled multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on an x86 computer in a safe and efficient manner. VT-x was the first means of hardware acceleration for … [Read more...] about vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
Regarding the Posting of Comments
I refrained as long as I could, but unfortunately the spammers have prevailed. This week I have enabled comment moderation as a means to stop the spamming of my blogs comment section. I will make every effort to minimize the delay between comments being submitted and when they post. … [Read more...] about Regarding the Posting of Comments