Virtualization 3.0 is the eventual end-game for the data center. In this environment the host will become the ‘atomic’ element of the data center, with applications, storage and networking all centered on this single element, for the most part. Clearly,…
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Increasing VM Density With Server Side Caching
Increasing the number of virtual machines (VMs) per host is a critical next step in the design of virtualized server infrastructures so that the growth of virtual hosts does not begin to eat at the original ROI of the virtualization…
Tagged with: AutoCache, Cache, PCI Express, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere
Posted in Product Analysis
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Rack Density – The Key to Maximum Virtualization ROI
Data center floor space is an increasing concern for IT managers. Once the walls of the data center have been reached, the only options are to either decrease the amount of devices in the current data center or to build…
Tagged with: Density, Nutanix, PCIe, RAM, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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High Performance Storage For The SMB
As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,…
Tagged with: Drobo, ISCSI, OCZ, SMB, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine
Posted in Briefing Note
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The Storage Hypervisor
Flexibility is a key objective for many data centers. They want to respond to the needs of the business without having to slow the business down. Flexibility like this is a primary deliverable of server virtualization and one of the…
Tagged with: Hypervisor, Primary Storage, Shortcoming, Thin provisioning, Virsto, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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What is TRILL’s Role in FCoE Storage Networks?
TRILL is an acronym that stands for Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links and is a proposed Link Layer (L2) networking standard from the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). TRILL is important because as large data centers begin to combine…
Tagged with: Converged Enhanced Ethernet, Data Center Bridging, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Spanning, Storage Network, STP, Switch, TRILL, Virtual machine
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Using NPIV to Optimize Server Virtualization’s Storage
Despite the economy, server virtualization rollouts continue unabated and in fact because of the economy there is increased pressure to optimize further the virtual infrastructure by increasing virtual machine density. This increased density puts additional pressure on an already strained…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, LUN, NPIV, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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