Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

During the 2013 post thanksgiving black friday shopping day, I did some on-line buying including a Dell Inspiron 660 i660 (5629BK) to be used as a physical machine (PM) or VMware host (among other things). Now technically I know, this is a workstation or desktop […].

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence tools.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is March 31 2015 (@worldbackupday) so now is a good time to be ready. The only challenge that I have with the World Backup Day (view their site here) that has gone on for a few years know is that it is a good way to call out the importance of backing up or protecting data.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2018

VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements of new features and other enhancements.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged (HCI) software defined data infrastructure In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the first of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It is fall (at least here in north America) which means conferences, symposium, virtual and physical events, seminars, webinars in addition to normal client project […].

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 31, 2014

Watch for more post VMworld coverage in upcoming newsletters, articles, posts along with other industry trend topics. Enjoy this edition of the StorageIO Update newsletter and look forward to catching up with you live or online while out and about this fall.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part III (Reducing costs complexity) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the third of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. Part III (reducing costs complexity) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN v6.6 Part II (just the speeds feeds features please) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the second of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6.

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Fountainhead

MAY 12, 2009

M Apps where demand is highly counter-cyclical with other applications In other words, if an application runs out-of-phase with other apps in-house (say, backup apps that run in the middle of the night when other apps are quiescent) then it might make sense to keep in-house. When I worked at VMware, one of the questions we often (always?)

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part V (vSAN evolution and summary) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fifth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. Part V (vSAN evolution and summary) appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN V6.6 Part IV (HCI scaling ROBO and data centers today) In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) software defined data infrastructure solution. This is the fourth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 This is part two (part one here) of a three-part (part III here) series looking at VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 Last week VMware announced vSphere vSAN […] The post VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 7, 2015

Eric has run for several years now an annual top VMware, Virtualization, Storage and related blogs voting now taking place until March 16th 2015 (click on the image below). You will find a nice mix of new school, old school and a few current or future school theme blogs represented with some being more VMware specific.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary VMware announced last week vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 among other updates for their software-defined data center (SDDC) and software-defined infrastructure (SDI) solutions. The new April v6.7 SDDC Update Summary appeared first on StorageIOblog. The new April v6.7

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month including VMworld in Las Vegas that featured many Dell EMC VMware (among other) software defined data infrastructure updates and announcements. The post Dell EMC VMware September 2017 Software Defined Data Infrastructure Updates appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Enabling Recovery Points (Backup, Snapshots, Versions) Companion to Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials – Cloud, Converged, Virtual Fundamental Server Storage I/O Tradecraft ( CRC Press 2017) By Greg Schulz – www.storageioblog.com November 26, 2017 This is Part 4 of a multi-part series on Data Protection fundamental tools topics (..)

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 26, 2015

VMware vCloud Air provides a platform similar to those just mentioned among others for your applications and their underlying resource needs (compute, memory, storage, networking) to be fulfilled.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements This is part three of a three-part series looking at last weeks v6.7 VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements. The focus of this post is on server, storage, I/O along with deployment and other wrap up items.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Hello and welcome to this February 2015 Server and StorageIO update newsletter. The new year is off and running with many events already underway including the recent USENIX FAST conference and others on the docket over the next few months.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash Dell Technologies Announces Class V VMware Tracking Stock exchange for stock or cash. Image via Dell Technologies Summary of Dell transaction announcement includes: VMware declares an $11 Billion USD cash dividend pro rata to all VMware stock holders.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Sure you can go to a manufactures website and look at the speeds and feeds (technical performance numbers) however are those metrics applicable to your environments applications or workload?

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Today, Dell as in Michael Dell and his corporation Dell along with partner Silver Lake investment announced a $67B USD deal that they are acquiring EMC along with their stake in VMware which will stay an independently public traded company.

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part two of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack with a focus on my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3) including into a nested VMware vSphere ESXi environment. Read part one here that provides a general overview of Azure Stack.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future #blogtober A few weeks ago I was invited to present a keynote at the 1st annual Minnesota VMware User Group (VMUG) Super VMUG mega event in Minneapolis titled Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future (download PDF presentation here). (..)

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 14, 2017

AWS and S3 storage gateway access alternatives include those from various third-party (including that are in the AWS marketplace), as well as via data protection tools (e.g. backup/restore, archive, snapshot, replication) and more commonly storage systems. Some tools include Cloudberry, S3FS, S3 motion, S3 Browser among many others.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

With September being generally known as back to school month, the two September event bookends were VMware VMworld and Microsoft Ignite with many other things in between. The post September 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2017

September was a busy month pertaining to software defined data infrastructure including cloud and related AWS announcements. Unlike traditional partner software defined solutions that relied on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, VMware is being deployed using private bare metal AWS elastic servers.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2017

Some of you may be traveling to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas next week to sharpen, expand, refresh or share your VMware and data infrastructure tradecraft (skills, experiences, expertise, knowledge). Here is something fun to sharpen your VMware skills while traveling.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

With world backup (and recovery) day coming up on March 31, it makes sense to plan, review, assess, remediate, test and prepare in advance, to avoid or prevent a disaster later.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

First a reminder world backup (and recovery) day is on March 31. Volume 17, Issue III Hello and welcome to the March 2017 issue of the Server StorageIO update newsletter.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

lightweight Nano, full data center with desktop interface, on-premise, bare metal, virtualized (Hyper-V, VMware, etc) as well as cloud). This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

This includes NVM as well as NVMe based SSD’s, HDD’s, cache and tiering technologies, as well as data protection among other things with Hyper-V, VMware as well as various cloud services. PACE) related to servers, storage, I/O networks, hardware, software, cloud, virtual and containers.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 22, 2017

Data storage regardless of if hardware, legacy, new, emerging, cloud service or various software defined storage (SDS) approaches are all fundamental resource components of data infrastructures along with compute server, I/O networking as well as management tools, techniques, processes and procedures.

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 14, 2017

CI, CIB and HCI can be complete data infrastructure for smaller environments, or component building blocks in larger organizations. This page provides insight in to Converged Infrastructure (CI), Cluster in box or Cloud in Box (CIB) along with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) topics along with links to companion resources.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Announcing My New Book Data Infrastructure Management Insight Strategies Announcing my new book Data Infrastructure Management Insight Strategies published via Auerbach/CRC Press is now available via CRC Press and Amazon.com among other global venues. the white book) is my fifth […].

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Storage IO Blog

MAY 4, 2017

This is part one of a two-part series looking at Microsoft Azure Stack providing an overview, preview and review. Read part two here that looks at my experiences installing Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 (TP3). For those who are not aware, Azure Stack is a private on-premise extension of the Azure public cloud environment.

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