The Virtual Storage Guy

IDC has published a new report investigating the emerging role pre-validated architecture solutions are providing in the transformation of delivering IT services. IDC shares the finding around the value and benefits delivered with the FlexPod datacenter infrastructure from Cisco and NetApp, and the VMware vSphere Built on FlexPod solution. Some areas of note in the report include… [...]

The first and only unified storage array vendor, has long been the hallmark of NetApp. Yet with the acquisitions of Bycast and Engenio it appears NetApp may be abandoning the concept of a unified storage array. Is this true, has NetApp abandoned their position on unified storage? If you’re a NetApp customer maybe you feel [...]

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 and Copenhagen. Needless to say I’m honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we’ve [...]

What began in late 2005 with Vanderpool continued today with the release of vSphere 4.1… Vanderpool was the code name of Intel’s Virtualization Technology of x86 (or VT-x), which introduced extended page tables and enabled multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on an x86 computer in a safe and efficient manner. VT-x was the first [...]

With today’s release of vSphere 4.1 I’m confident that some may want to see the vStorage APIs for array integration (VAAI) in action with NetApp arrays. If you count yourself in this group you can catch the NetApp demo of the APIs from VMworld 2009 (September, 2009). If we had the APIs in Data ONTAP [...]

Many of you have been asking for the status of the sessions submitted for VMworld by NetApp, our customers and partners. It looks like the VMworld 2010 Content Catalog has been posted. While I haven’t received confirmation from John Troyer, it appears the catalog is a work in progress. I make this suggestion, as a [...]