In a Virtual Volumes environment, the VASA provider is a component that sits between the array and vCenter server/ESXi hosts. It provides the out-of-band communication path between the ESXi host and the storage array for VM/vVols tasks, as well as surfacing up the array capabilities to the vCenter Server. These capabilities allow administrators to create Read more...
VMworld 2016 US is in the books! Last week on the vSpeaking Podcast we brought in VMware's Duncan Epping and Ken Werneburg to preview VMworld 2016 and so we thought it would only be fitting to bring them back in for a special VMworld 2016 debrief episode. This episode is packed with session reviews, attendee interviews and even Read more...
HCIBench stands for "Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark", which is an automation wrapper around the popular and proven VDBench open source benchmark tool that makes it far easier to automate testing across a hyper-converged cluster. HCIBench was released last August, one year later, we published another major release and moved it from Dropbox to Fling. If you are new Read more...
VMworld 2016 is upon us! This Sunday approximately 20,000 IT Professionals will travel to Las Vegas for technical training, education, networking and maybe even a little fun. This week on the vSpeaking Podcast we bring in VMware's Duncan Epping and Ken Werneburg to preview VMworld 2016 and share their own tips and tricks to help you make Read more...
VMworld US is quickly approaching and the VMware Storage and Availability Business Unit (SABU) couldn’t be more excited to welcome you to beautiful and bright Las Vegas. The conference will be running from August 28 – September 1, 2016. If you haven’t checked out our latest blog on all the SABU activities taking place Read more...
ONTAP 9 Last month NetApp released their latest operating system ONTAP® 9 which is a major advance in enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. This week we had the opportunity to catch up with our old friends from the Tech ONTAP Podcast and walk Read more...
vVols Reloaded is a short series highlighting some of the great VMworld 2015 sessions on Virtual Volumes. Today we are reloading a VMworld session presented by Eric Siebert of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this session Eric lays out the top 10 things you MUST know before implementing virtual volumes. Read more...
EMC Unity made a big splash at EMC World last month. In case you missed it, it’s the new midrange storage platform to delight EMC current and prospective customers in the mid-markets with emphasis on simplicity, flexibility, modern data services, and affordability. This week we bring in EMC Technical Marketing Manager for Unity, Daniel Chiu Read more...
In today's edition of vVols Reloaded we look at a VMworld session from George Winter and Abrar Hussain of Veritas with Narasimha Krishnakumar of VMware. In this VMworld session they compare performance of vVols and VMFS when protecting workloads. This session goes to a good level of detail on how snapshots are offloaded with Virtual Read more...
Welcome to vVols Reloaded! A brief series highlighting some of the great Virtual Volumes breakout sessions from last years VMworld. In this series I'll be sharing a few of the sessions from VMworld 2015 that I think offer some good insights into vVols and their capabilities. Hopefully this will get you ready for VMware 2016 to learn even more about Read more...
