I recently recorded a VEEAM Community Podcast with Rick Vanover. You can find the podcast on Podbean here:
http://veeam.podbean.com/2011/03/06/episode-9-%E2%80%93-virtualization-storage-with-vaai-and-other-smarts-on-disk/
Be sure to check Rick’s podcast out; it’s new and those who follow Infosmack will know Rick was a valuable and regular contributer to Virtumania.
In the world of x86 server virtualization, there’s no doubt that VMware’s vSphere dominates. This 2010 IDC virtualization report shows VMware as the only company in the upper right segment of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
However Citrix (with Xen Server) and Microsoft (with Hyper-V) are close behind. [...]
I’ve been spending some time recently working with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation platform and one of the major hassles I’ve experienced is having to use the command line rather than GUI for certain functions. If you’re not aware, Windows 2008 Core is a stripped down version of a standard Windows 2008 Server deployment and so has no GUI interface. That makes administering features such as iSCSI a little more challenging.
Amazon have announced the availability of a feature that allows vSphere virtual machines (as VMDKs) to be imported into AWS. Today the feature is restricted to systems running Windows 2008 Server Sp2 but will be expanded in the future. Now this concept sounds great but there’s a major drawback here [...]
There’s no denying that virtualization platforms such as VMware and Hyper-V have revolutionized the way in which computing resources are deployed.
Physical servers were usually under-utilized and took time and effort to deploy. These servers also consumed data center space, power and cooling. Virtualization reduced hardware costs, reduced the environmental [...]
I was recently briefed on the latest Symantec Disaster Recovery Study (2010), the details of which can be found here. Some 1700 companies (of 5000 employees or more) were interviewed about various aspects of their backup environments. As usual with these kind of surveys, there were some interesting results (I [...]
This year’s IP Expo at Earls Court in London has a real buzz about it. I dropped in yesterday and managed to get a quick interview with Simon Hansford, founder of Attenda Ltd, a company offering cloud-based application managed services. We’ve seen Simon on many a 3Par promotional video (and one of the [...]
At 360IT last month I managed to catch up with Vish Mulchand, Director of Software Product Marketing. Vish talks about Oracle VM Server support and other virtualisation platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V and Xen. In a virtual world, storage and virtualisation integration is going to be key. 3Par have already demonstrated their support for [...]
I’ve just posted about the SCSI support that enables VAAI features over on my storage blog. Writing that post got me thinking about the wider aspects of VAAI or at least the reasons for why VAAI is needed. This in turn spawned a few random thoughts I feel like sharing.
VAAI [...]
Last Friday I was a guest on the latest Infosmack podcast, with special guest Chad Sakac. One of the topics was Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0 (initially in beta). You can read more details in the press release, however in a nutshell, UIM is all about [...]
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