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.
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A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an [...]
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