Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide...
View ArticleFree Book – vSphere on NetApp Best Practices
I’m pleased to announce that NetApp is giving away published copies of our vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices book! This offer is open to the first 1,000 eligible individuals who have a shipping...
View ArticleAn Important VMworld Announcement
This just in, I’m very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco...
View ArticleUpdated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here’s a quick summary of what’s new in version 2.1: vStorage APIs for Array...
View ArticleVMware HA, VM-Host Affinity Rules, and how they apply with Metrocluster
Duncan Epping of VMware and Yellow-Bricks has posted a nice write up on running VMware on a NetApp MetroCluster with VM-Host Affinity Rules (new in vSphere 4.1). In summary this new capability allows...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleVMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts
Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I...
View ArticleNetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5
We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I’m very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is...
View ArticleThoughts on Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5
This article originally appears in Tech OnTap – If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing to Tech OnTap. NetApp recently published an update to our storage best practices for VMware® that...
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 non-disuptively...
View ArticleVMworld 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...
View ArticleVMworld 2012: BCO2982 Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM
This session was second of the two ‘community’ sessions I presented with Chad. The topic of this session is “Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM – when, why, where”. In many regards the technologies that...
View ArticleHeads up! Avoiding VMware vSphere ESXi 5 NFS Disconnect Issues
There is a problem that impacts our mutual customers running VMware ESXi 5 with NFS connectivity. While details are not finalized it appears the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have identified...
View ArticleVMware Updates Best Practices for vSphere on NFS
VMware with support form their storage alliance partners NetApp, EMC and HDS has updated their Best Practices for deploying vSphere with NFS datastores. The document provides direction in areas that...
View ArticleAnnouncing our New Crowd-Sourced vSphere Design Pocket Guide
I am pleased to announce the availability of our new book, ‘vSphere Design Considerations.’ It’s a crowd-sourced, pocket guide of tweet-length design considerations for VMware vSphere. This book is...
View ArticlePure Storage set to paint VMworld 2014 orange!
VMworld is one of the premier infrastructure technology conferences you can attend. Attendees rave at the insight of the keynotes, the innovation on display by VMware and their partners, the technical...
View ArticleGHOST Critical Vulnerability in Pure Storage Systems
CVE-2015-0235 or GHOST is a critical vulnerability in the LINUX glibc library. Its a buffer overflow bug affecting the gethostbyname() and gethostbyname2() function calls. This vulnerability allows a...
View ArticleMelbourne VMUG UserCon 2015: vSphere Storage Best Practices
Recently I had th fortune to join my good friend Chad Sakac in co-presenting a keynote session at the Sydney and Melbourne UserCons. We delivered a condensed version of the VMworld 2014 session,...
View ArticleExperts Round Table: Flash Mythbusters
The Spiceworks ‘Flash Mythbusters‘ experts round table is available and online for those who missed the live event. Flash technologiests from EMC, Nimble Storage, Pure Storage and SolidFire to set...
View ArticleLike the Phoenix, the vSphere Storage Best Practices Returns for VMworld 2016
I am happy to announce the return of the vSphere Storage Best Practices technical breakout session in an all-new and improved format. This is the brain child Cody Hosterman, Pure’s Sr. VMware Reference...
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