Introducing FlexPod for VMware: Flexible IT
Today, organizations understand the financial and operational benefits of moving to a shared cloud-based infrastructure. Both enterprises and service providers require validated, cost-effective, virtualized cloud solutions. To meet this need, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have created FlexPod – a flexible architecture packaged and designed to accelerate enterprises’ IT transformation to a cloud-based infrastructure.
Introducing Data Compression in ONTAP 8.0.1
It’s no secret; NetApp wants to sell you less storage than any other storage vendor and by forecasts from industry experts like IDC it is time we all begin enabling storage savings technologies throughout our datacenters. When NetApp was founded we unknowingly set out on this mission with the release of our first feature, the […]
Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
As I shared in a previous posts, the 2010 Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference was hosting a vExpert panel. This session was hosted by Rich Brambley of VMetc.com, Veeam & the Virtumania podcast (seriously rich – do you sleep?) The panel consisted of Mike Laverick of RTFM-Ed.co.uk and SearchServerVirtualization.com, Chad Sakac & Scott Lowe of EMC, […]
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 emphasis on the number tasks that a VI admin must execute. At reviewing the traditional model we introduced the new model; one jointly created […]
Now Available: The Virtual Storage Console vSphere Plug-in
Since VMworld 2009 one of the recurring questions posted to me on Twitter has been. “When will NetApp release the VSC?” – Wait no longer, the VSC is available for download via NOW. For those of you unfamiliar with the VSC, it is a vCenter 4.0 plug-in that simplifies the configuration and management of NetApp, […]