by Robin Harris | Monday, May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, Management, Virtualization |
More virtual machines than physical machines were sold last year. What does that mean for storage? As noted 4 years ago in The virtual machine I/O blender Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads....
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | Architecture, Enterprise, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
More is coming on SSDs RSN, but in the meantime there is the following piece from Virsto’s Eric Burgener on HA considerations for SSDs. Virsto is a software company focused on making VIRtual STOrage for VMware and HyperV much more functional than the physical...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | Architecture, Enterprise, NAS, IP, iSCSI, SSD/Flash/NVRAM, Virtualization |
A StorageMojo reader has a problem. Can you help? Our mail hub (80,000+ mailboxes) is virtualized with vSphere 4.1 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64 and Dovecot 2.0 [an open source IMAP/POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems]. We are using HP LeftHand...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | Virtualization |
A shout out to all ‘worlders: the StorageMojo analyst team will be descending en masse on the lush Nevada desert (yes, in Phoenix real estate people often tout the “lush desert” – don’t they know what desert means?) to take in our 1st...
by Robin Harris | Friday, September 10, 2010 | Architecture, Enterprise, Virtualization |
Robert Gray, a former analyst at IDC and long time friend, asked me to respond to a comment from NetApp president Tom Georgens. Tom told Information Week that: . . . virtualization is fundamentally changing the way data centers are designed: instead of individual...
by Robin Harris | Friday, April 9, 2010 | Management, Virtualization |
Got a presentation from a company I hadn’t heard of before: VKernel. Their specialty is virtual machine capacity planning and management. They demo’d their software, which ships as a VM. They offer free versions that are good enough to tell you if their...
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