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 [...]
Last month we saw the announcement of vSphere 4.1 and the support of new storage features centred around VAAI, the vSphere API for Array Integration. This introduced a number of array offload features including Full Copy, Block Zeroing and Hardware Assisted Locking. Now this new functionality, aimed at improving scalability is intended to [...]
I’ve just been reading up on Data ONTAP 8.0 as part of some ongoing work I’m doing. You may be aware that version 8.0 of the filer operating system brings two major features; 64-bit support and the (sort of) integration of the Spinnaker code to create the multi-node version of ONTAP (called cluster mode).
The [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
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