VMware on AWS has been available for over a year, yet there are several missing elements. There are a lack of available data protection solutions and there is a lack of a truly enterprise class storage solution. The primary challenge…
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Primary Storage for VMware on AWS – Zadara Briefing Note
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, Copy Data, EBS, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, VM, VMware, VSAN, Zadara
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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 2 – Storage Software
In the last blog Storage Switzerland discussed the heart and soul of a Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), the hypervisor. But a group of servers clustered via a hypervisor is not HCI, it is merely virtualization. For any virtualized environment to deliver…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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How to Solve VMware Problems, Not Just Knowing About Them – Runecast Briefing Note
Troubleshooting is a big part of the VMware Administrator’s job description. The problem is that most troubleshooting is a reactive process where something has to break before IT leaps into action. The situation gets worse because after a problem has…
Tagged with: Hyperconverged, Migration, Runecast, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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Can Software Defined Networking Bring Scale to HCI? – Big Switch HCI Briefing Note
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of those technologies that look great on the whiteboard. The idea of collapsing the compute, storage and networking tiers into one, and creating an infrastructure that automatically scales as each node is added to the…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hyperconverged, Redundancy, SAS, SATA, SDN, SSD, VM, VSAN
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Modern Storage Infrastructures Need Software Defined Networks – Big Switch Briefing Note
Data center modernization creates agility so IT can rapidly respond to the needs of the business. Of the aspects of the data center being modernized, the network infrastructure tends to be the last to change and it inhibits the proliferation…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, Fabric, HCI, Hyperconvergence, ISCSI, NFS, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM, VSAN
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Virtual Instruments – Realizing Full Value of Your EMC Storage Deployments
One request I never hear from IT professionals is give me more tools. They are inundated with tools from every vendor in their environment. Every component in the data center generates data about how it’s operating. The problem is none…
Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
Primary Data Briefing Note VSAN customers now have access to file sharing services for their VMs with new functionality from Primary Data. As mentioned in a previous post, VMware is marketing VSAN as a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product; install VMware…
VMware Feeling the HCI Pinch
Read between the lines of VMware’s latest VSAN announcement and you can learn a few things. The first thing I see is that VMware is definitely feeling the pinch — or at the very least worried they will feel the…
vSphere tackles the Hyperconverged Infrastructure World: VMware VSAN 6.2
VMware is releasing VSAN 6.2, the third major release of VSAN since its introduction in August of 2014. (Like other VMware companion products, the release number is tied to the vSphere release number it is associated with.) This release gives…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, HDD, Hyperconverged, SSD, VMware, VSAN
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The Top 5 StorageSwiss Articles for 2014
This is it, the final entry of the year for Storage Switzerland and where we announce the top 5 articles for 2014. But before we do, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year’s Eve and a…
Tagged with: Cache, Efficiency, Hyper-converged, Latency, server-side storage, Software Defined, Storage Controller, VSAN
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