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Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 1: An Introduction
I expect most of my readers are familiar with Transparent Page Sharing (TPS). For those in need of a refresh, TPS increases the over all performance capabilities of an ESX/ESXi cluster by ensuring...
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Transparent Storage Cache Sharing– Part 2: More Use Cases
In part one of this series I introduced you to Transparent Storage Cache Sharing and introduced the use case of serving virtual machines and their binaries. The post received some great feedback and...
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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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Storage Architectures with LDVM: Faster, Less ComPlex
While attending the VMware TechSummit this week, someone asked why I thought storage was relevant in light of server virtualization, the virtual datacenter, cloud deployments, the software mainframe,...
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FACT: VMware vSphere on NetApp is Faster and Greener
I’d like to ask you, do you think the following statements are generally considered to be true? Virtualization is software, and hardware is simply hardware RAID10 out performs all other RAID types...
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Virtual Storage Tiering and Desktop Virtualization
Last week I presented our portfolio of desktop virtualization solutions to a group of Cisco engineers and account managers. These solutions are built on FlexPod and include desktop virtualization...
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Current Status, An Update, and a Look to the Future of Alignment
It has been one year to the date since the last time I authored a post on the topic of partition alignment. I think its fair to state this issue has gained awareness over the last year thanks to...
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New vSphere 4.1 Report: Measuring SAN & NAS Performance
NetApp and VMware performance engineering have completed a new storage performance technical report, TR-3916. This new report provides the relative I/O performance available from SAN and NAS storage...
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Storage for Desktops – Simple Versus Complicated
I’ve had some great meetings with a number of customers this week and in one of them they were very interested in understanding NetApp’s value proposition with VMware View. They were specifically...
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It’s 2012, Time to Review My Predictions for 2011
Last year I made my first attempt at predicting what I thought would transpire with storage technologies and their use, integration, and trends related to server virtualization and cloud computing in...
View ArticleVendorwag with Mike Laverick: New Features in the Virtual Storage Console 4.0
Mike Laverick visits to discuss the new features in the NetApp Virtual Storage Console plug-in for VMware vCenter Server. We highlight the new ‘Migrate and Optimize’ capability that can...
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VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective. I’d...
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Pure Storage Flash Bits: Adaptive Data Reduction
Flash is the revolutionizing force in the storage market, providing next-generation storage platforms a level of performance previously unobtainable and more ideal to support the data access...
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Pure Storage Flash Bits: Ensuring 100% Performance
Today’s IT departments are evolving into internal service providers focused on delivering agile and always available services to end users, partners, and customers. One of the many unique qualities of...
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Vote for Next-Gen Storage Sessions at VMworld 2014
You can help shape the content catalog for VMworld 2014! Voting for VMworld 2014 breakout sessions is open. This is your opportunity to help shape the course catalog. Storage is front and center this...
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SPEC SFS2008 Verifies You Can Run Faster on Fewer Disks with PAM
NetApp is the only storage vendor focused on reducing storage hardware footprints. Evidently discussions surrounding the use of storage saving technologies in a production environment must be upsetting...
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New VMware and NetApp Protocol Performance Report
Many of you have been asking when NetApp & VMware update TR-3697 (multiprotocol performance comparison paper covering VI3) to include vSphere. It is my pleasure to share that as of this morning we...
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EMC Benchmarking Shenanigans
I want to tell you a story about how my evening went the other night. I hope you don’t mind a narrative. Monday I received an email from a friend in the VMware community, “Did you see the Register,...
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Have a few days to spare? We need to upgrade the XtremIO
Recently the news wire has been abuzz with the revelation that EMC XtremIO customers wanting to upgrade the system software to the coming XIOS version 3.0 will be disruptive. To be clear, this isn’t...
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Storage Field Day 6 visits Pure Storage
Last week Stephen Foskett and a host of delegates visited the Bay Area for Storage Field Day 6. The crew stopped by Pure Storage to catch up on our vision and direction, whiteboard on the architecture...
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