February 19, 2013
Virtual Simulators
If you’re an engineer and you’re trying to get more experience with a variety of different storage devices, you might…
Tag: Netapp
December 17, 2012
Memory De-duplication in VMware
One of the companies I worked for got a Netapp filer and I loved the fact that it would dedupe…
July 1, 2012
Netapp AggrSpaceCheck 2.0 needed
I was recently helping out a company attempt to upgrade their Netapp Filer from OnTap 7.3 over to Data OnTap…
May 1, 2012
Netapp VASA Provider 1.0
Netapp has released their vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provider 1.0 to their support site. http://support.netapp.com If you’re not that…
April 10, 2012
Netapp VSC4 Optimization and Migration
One of my most frequently read articles is on how to use MBRAlign to align your virtual machine disks on…
March 21, 2012
Understanding RAID Penalty
Determining which type of RAID to use when building a storage solution will largely depend on two things; capacity and…
March 8, 2012
Path Selection Policy with ALUA
It’s important to understand how VMware ESXi servers handle connections to their associated storage arrays. If we look specifically with…
February 25, 2012
VMWorld 2011
VMworld 2011 was held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Over 25,000 attendees this year. It was held in…