The Virtual Storage Guy

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 highlights the new capabilities of VMware vSphere® 5 and NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8. This updated technical report (TR) covers a number of new capabilities [...]

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 highlighted by the addition of support for vSphere 5.  

I’m happy to share with you that we have opened a public beta program for the upcoming release of System Manager 2.0. SM2 is the next generation of our GUI management tool that enables storage administrators to manage multiple arrays and storage elements from a single interface. System Manager 2 provides a number of functions [...]

One of the key goals of the FlexPod architecture is accelerating the adoption of tier 1 applications. In delivering this goal Cisco & NetApp work with our infrastructure partners to producing and validating best in class architecture design guides that ensure solution design, supportability, availability and scalability. The use of these Cisco Validated Designs result [...]

  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 posts from a number of industry experts such as Duncan Epping, Aaron Delp, and Chad [...]

Last week while hosting our Virtualization Field Readiness Summit I spent some time with Dr. Desktop (aka Chris Gebhardt) and while educating me on advancements in our technologies related to desktop virtualization he shared a few of the enhancements in Data Ontap 8.0.1 that were so exciting I thought I’d share. Reason Number 1 – [...]