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 … [Read more...] about Introducing FlexPod for VMware: Flexible IT
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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, and yours truly. Honestly, … [Read more...] about Videos from the Charlotte VMUG Annual Conference
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 by NetApp and VMware engineering and … [Read more...] about VMware Admins are Storage Admins – vStorage Integration Part 2
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, IBM, and Virtualized 3rd party arrays. The VSC supports ESX/ESX … [Read more...] about Now Available: The Virtual Storage Console vSphere Plug-in
Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD
Last night I got caught in what I would classify as a tweet-fight with several of my chums over at EMC on the role storage arrays play within a virtual datacenter. The conversation was pretty intense and at one point I posted the following string of tweets… @sakacc @chuckhollis – Guys EMC & NetApp just look at virtualization differently. Allow me to explain… @sakacc … [Read more...] about Run Everything Virtualized and Deduplicated : aka Chuck Anti-FUD