Last week VMware issued this advisory on their knowledge base, recommending the disabling of VAAI Thin Provisioning reclaim in ESXi 5.0. Apparently it seems to be causing “poor performance’ during certain vSphere actions like Storage vMotion. The “cause” section contains the somewhat vague comment as follows:
VAAI Thin Provisioning is enabled by default [...]
I don’t talk about company acquisitions too often but I can’t let the purchase of BlueArc by HDS pass me by without adding my opinion. First of all, for those of you who don’t know, BlueArc sells NAS hardware which has been resold by HDS for some years under the HNAS brand. The hardware comes [...]
Last week I took part in a special Infosmack recording at the HDS Bloggers’ Day. You can find a link to the recording here, via The Register;
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/hds_storage_virtualisation_podcast/
Unfortunately we still didn’t have the Hu v Claus benchpress competiton, but hey….
In this picture are:
Greg Knieriemen – @knieriemen [...]
This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array. Previous posts:
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: Disk Drive Architecture
Hitachi have modified the VSP array to provide significant performance improvements over the previous USP [...]
At the recent Hitachi Information Forum on 27th September 2010 I caught a few minutes with Michael Hay, Chief Strategist and Vice President of Product Planning. We discussed some of the new features of the VSP platform. Here’s the video.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, with two lots of travelling in different directions. Last week I was in Barcelona at the HP Converged Infrastructure (CI)Event and the week previously at HDS’s launch of the new VSP (Virtual Storage Platform). Both HP and HDS released their new platform at the same time [...]
According to this Barrons report, EMC are delayed in the release of their next generation of CLARiiON and Celerra hardware until around April next year. I’m not aware of details of any new products, but I suspect that EMC is looking to harmonise these two product lines into a single piece [...]
This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array.
The VSP is the first enterprise array from Hitachi that offers support for 2.5″ drives. We’ve seen these Small Form Factor (SFF) models for some time [...]
Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here). Both companies OEM the VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time. I am currently in Santa Clara for [...]
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture. Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]
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