Archive for the ‘Storage’ Category

VMware Announces Top Rated Sessions (2009-2-26)

VMware have just announced the 10 highest rated sessions that will be repeated this afternoon (Thursday).  Here’s the list in order:
#1 – TA01 – Managing VMware With PowerShell
#2 – DV02 – VDI versus Terminal Services
#3 – AP02 – Best Practices for Deploying Sharepoint/MOSS 2007 on VMware Infrastructure
#4 – AP11 – Performance Best Practices
#5 – DC21 [...]

Brocade New Features (2009-2-24)

As someone that implements Brocades SANs on a semi-regular basis, I thought I’d stop by their stand and see if they had anything interesting on show and it turns out they did.
The project I am currently working on has a number of Brocade fabrics (4) after adding 3 new ones and managing them would have [...]

A-SIS or FlexClone or Both? (2008-8-28)

Scott Lowe has written an article that discusses the pros & cons of FlexClone & A-SIS when used in conjunction with a VMware environment.
If you are just getting to grips with these technolgies (like me) it is a very useful starting point to understand how the two technologies may work with VMware.
I was investigating it [...]

Email Alerts For DataCore SANMelody NMV (2008-8-26)

I found a fantastic article that talks about a free method of monitoring the event viewer for NMV related warnings. I know this functionality should be included in the product, but until it is try using blat as described in this article.

IBM XIV Storage Released (2008-8-15)

IBM have quietly and I mean quietly announced the release of the new Mid-Enterprise storage range, the XIV storage range has had two press releases here and here.
This is one of the most low key announcements I have ever seen from any vendor about something so important to their hardware product line.
If you want some [...]

Two More Eric Siebert Top Tens (2008-8-11)

Eric Siebert has compiled two more excellent Top Ten lists:
Storage in VMware
Get More Technical with VMware
Not much more to say, just that they are as excellent as I’ve come to expect.