vSphere on NetApp Best Practices Released
I am please to share with you that this morning our new Technical Report, TR-3749: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices, has been released. I’d like to thank Mike Slisinger, Larry Touchette, and Peter Learmonth for all of their assistance in the production of this TR. I’d like to take a few moments to share […]
Everything Old is New Again
I’ve been saying ‘everything which is old is new again’ over the past few years as it is very evident within the server virtualization landscape. Well low and behold Google announces plans to develop their browser, Google Chrome, into its own operating system and I believe the same phrase applies. I vividly recall my second […]
VMware Co-Brands TR-3428
There’s an update to our VI3 storage best practices technical report. There’s no technical content updates to be concerned with, instead I would like to share that TR-3428 version 4.5.2 has been officially co-branded by VMware. This update is basically a quality assurance seal which states that the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have […]
Storage 101 – Virtualization Changes Everything
Updated July 12th – Syllabus revised Welcome all to Storage 101, I’ll be brief below is our syllabus and the topics we will cover leading up to VMworld. The format of these posts will begin with a high level introduction to the technology followed by all of the technical gory details. I am hoping that […]
The Epiphany – I Had One, You Want One?
Recently I was visiting customers and prospects in the North East and during one of our meetings the customer stated, “…what NetApp is doing, in terms of storage virtualization, make us feel like NetApp is much more aligned with the goals of VMware than their parent company…” This praise was shared while the customer told […]