“The biggest risk to success is perpetuating the status quo.” So said VMworld CEO, Pat Gelsinger, during his keynote address at VMworld. He went on to say that, “Today’s world is stuck in silos. Developers against IT, on-premise against off…
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How File Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud can solve the Copy Data dilemma
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Storm, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, NAS, Nasuni, RPO, Security, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments
We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Lab Report
Posted in Lab Report
Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?
VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users
In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS
Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Seagate’s NAS Pro may be all the Cloud an SMB Needs
The proliferation of mobile devices and cloud-based services is a good indicator of how people are working nowadays – and what a small company’s storage system needs to provide. It’s all about collaboration and presenting ‘anywhere, anytime, on any device’…
Reader Question: Is Object Storage for Normal Data Centers?
One of the things I like about participating on the forums on Spiceworks is I get great, raw questions. One came in this week during a discussion around object storage. “I’d like to consider myself reasonably clued up, but I…
Can NAS handle a dense VM Environment?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have traditionally been used for the storing of unstructured data. As these systems have increased in performance and capabilities they are being used more and more for non-traditional NAS workloads, like databases and virtualization. While…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Storage Administrator Nirvana
What if setting up a new storage system took less time than waiting for a cup of cappuccino to brew at your favorite cafe? Sound too good to be true? Well today at Truth in IT’s Next Generation Storage Summit…
Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?
Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…
Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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