Build Your Own Storage Solution! Reflecting on my trip to VMworld in 2009, I recall storage was already moving to the forefront of virtualization technologies. Hmm…has much changed in 5 …
Are Dirty Shutdowns causing your NetApp ONTAP Update to Loop? In this post, I’ll share what I learned recently about NetApp ONTAP v8.x. Let’s talk “Dirty-Shutdowns!” Beginner Alert: Mark this …
Bullet Proofing Storage! My body still cringes when I remember the moment I heard the news…”The storage crashed!” It was 4 years ago (2010) when I lived through a large-scale …
How’s your data backup doing? Whether your business application stores financial data such as invoices, or PI (personal information) data such as personal or customer records – at the core …
Are all your egg’s in one basket? Keeping all the business critical virtual servers in the same datastore, LUN, or storage volume is a common OVERSIGHT for many IT operation …
VMware Storage Strategies To solve VMware storage problems, you need to understand how virtualization uses your storage, right? And, to design a robust new vSphere from the ground up, you …