I’d like to share with you a nice post from Glenn Sizemore, a VMware vExpert and a technical expert in our Microsoft Business Unit. He’s one of the many talented folks designing Hyper-V on NetApp solutions and architectures to run virtualized instances of Microsoft applications on Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, etc. Glen authored a nice post that demonstrates storage capabilities unique to NetApp that simultaneously deliver high performance and unimaginable storage savings from commodity hardware (aka …
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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 interested in understanding how NetApp could deliver high levels of storage I/O from a dense, and cost-effective, storage footprint. As a point of reference they drew what they perceived as a ‘simple’ storage layout on the whiteboard. They believed that such a storage …
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 protocols with vSphere 4.1 and a NetApp FAS array. The testing in the new TR-3916 is a leap forward from our previous reports as it includes results obtained from shared and non-shared datastores, has VAAI enabled, and measures the gains provided by the Paravirtual SCSI adapter. NetApp …
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 posts from a number of industry experts such as Duncan Epping, Aaron Delp, and Chad Sakac just to name a few. However alignment remains an open issue, which is unfortunate for customers and partners. …
5 Reasons to Upgrade to Data Ontap 8.0.1
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 – 64 Bit Aggregates 64 bit aggregates allow customer to extend the size of their storage pools (or aggregates) by raising …
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 technologies from VMware and Citrix, include automated configuration instructions, and each is certified as a Cisco Validated Design (CVD). In short, we are working together to deliver integrated solutions intended to address the broadest set of IT and user requirements. Today I want to share with …
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