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Free Tools to Help Manage your Virtualized Datacenter  

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Architecture Big Data Companies Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Companies Data center Hyper-V information technology Microsoft Visio Veeam Virtual machine vmware VMware vSphere' Once you begin using virtual servers in a live production environment, it can be easy to get unorganized. Luckily, […].

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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence

Storage IO Blog

In case you have not heard, the joint initiative (JV) founded in the fall of 2009 between Intel VMware Cisco and EMC called VCE had a change of ownership today.

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VMware VVOLs and storage I/O fundementals (Part 2)

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VVOL’s are accessed via the VMware software and associated API’s that are supported by various storage providers. VVOL’s are not LUN’s like regular block (e.g. DAS or SAN) storage that use SAS, iSCSI, FC, FCoE, IBA/SRP, nor are they NAS volumes like NFS mount points.

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March 2014 StorageIO Update Newsletter : Cisco Cloud, VMware VSAN and More

Storage IO Blog

Another industry activity involving servers storage I/O networking hardware software and virtualization (aka software defined) was the general announcement (GA) by VMware of Virtual SAN (VSAN).

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VMware announces vSphere V6 and associated virtualization technologies

Storage IO Blog

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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VMworld 2013 Vmware, server, storage I/O and networking update (Day 1)

Storage IO Blog

Congratulations to VMware on 10 years of VMworld! Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) […]. With the largest installment yet of a VMworld in terms of attendance, there were also many announcements today (e.g. Monday) and many more slated for out the week.

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VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements

Storage IO Blog

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

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