Container technologies like Docker are capturing a lot of headlines in IT circles right now. They provide a greater level of granularity than a virtual machine, creating a more portable and flexible environment. The problem is that most of the…
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Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O
Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VM
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Addressing the Docker to Production Storage Challenge
Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Integration, Shared Storage, Software Defined, VM
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Why Storage vMotion hurts and how to stop the pain
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
What are the Requirements to Consolidate Storage?
In the perfect world, a data center would have a single storage system. One that would provide high performance and high capacity in a single platform that doesn’t take up much data center floor space. Ideally, this system would be…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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The Top 3 Deduplication Trends
When combined with compression and thin provisioning, deduplication makes a backup disk a cost effective strategy and now makes considering a primary storage tier consisting only of flash reasonable. In our on demand webinar Permabit CEO, Tom Cook and I…
Briefing Note: Stopping Virtualization’s Double Tax
Virtualized Windows applications suffer from two I/O taxes. First, there is the tax of the I/O blender caused by mixing dozens of VMs on a single server, and then connecting multiple servers to a shared storage array that creates a…
Tagged with: Condusiv, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM
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Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDD, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, ROI, Storage Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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Server Side Flash in a Shared Flash World
Server side flash, in its various forms, served as a precursor to shared flash arrays. It allowed IT planners to surgically address specific application response time issues caused by storage without having to implement a flash based array. This saved…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid array, Latency, PCIe, Server Side Cache, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization, VM
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