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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

Blocks & Files, an excellent storage related blog, has started a multi-part blog post about IBMs forthcoming storage range – XIV.
I implement IBM storage on a fairly regular basis and have mostly excellent experiences, but some of the ranges are either getting long in the tooth, or are just not as feature rich as they [...]

3Par have announced some back-end storage enhancements that can greatly improve the usability, scalability and performance of VMware VDI. Thin Copy Desktop has some of the following enhancements:
Automated Disktop Image Creation & Management – Storage level snapshots that are VMware VDI aware. This will apparently make desktops available in seconds instead of minutes/tens [...]

I have almost completed an installation of DataCore’s SANmelody storage virtualisation product and wanted to find out about how the wider SQL Server (in my case) community feel about storage virtualisation.
It just so happened that one of the articles I ended up reading was written by the always excellent Brent Ozar. It discusses the [...]

Nick Triantos has posted another brilliant post over at his Storage Nuts & Bolts blog about VMware Site Recovery Manager and the adapter that NetApp have created to plug into SRM.
The article talks about what is supported in the SRA (Site Recovery Adapter) including:

SnapMirror integration with SRM
Support for Sync, Async & Semi Sync
Dissimilar H/W configuration [...]

I recently came across a problem whereby a Rescan SAN was taking an absolute age, like 15 minutes from the VI Client. Now I love the VI Client, but sometimes it just doesn’t give you enough information when it is doing things. To be fair most of the time the verbose information is [...]

I don’t know if you are like me and feel initially a little bit nervous about messages that contain phrases like “there may be some interruption to I/O”.