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Server, Storage & Application Virtualisation!

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”.

Following on from an earlier post NetApp have released an updated best practices guide for the Open Systems SnapVault.
A 24 page beauty that will get you heading in the right direction with this new development.
Download the pdf here.

I’m sure that most people are either aware of these documents already or would have stumbled across them at some point.

Chad Sakak has been cajoled into releasing the EMC Celerra SImulator.

NetApp have released a powerful new addition to the Open Systems SnapVault range for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
OSSV installs directly into the VMware ESX service console and acts as a very light-weight interface to backup Virtual Machines on NetApp storage and non-NetApp storage. It works best with NetApp Protection Manager, but works well as a stand-alone [...]

The answer to this should be everyone. Working as a Virtualisation Consultant brings about all kinds of questions from customers and recently I have been getting lots of storage related questions.
Customers want to know what storage protocol they should be using. FC or iSCSI are the usual choices when this question is asked, [...]