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

DECEMBER 17, 2014

scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Are you a virtualization or software defined person looking to create a small VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) needing three or more servers to build a proof of concept or personal lab system? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Storage IO Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

backup BC and DR big data Cloud Comment converged Data protection database Education fun I/O Networking IT Industry Activity IT Infrastructure Topics music perspective pod cast post server ssd Storage Architecture and Access tools Travel virtualization evo:rail vmware VMworld'

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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

APRIL 11, 2017

VMware vSAN 6.6 hyper-converged (HCI) software defined data infrastructure In case you missed it, VMware announced vSAN v6.6 This is the first of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part III (reducing cost and complexity) located […] The post VMware vSAN 6.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

With nearly 140 employees, the high-performance data center provides government agencies with mission-critical compute, storage, and networking solutions needed to provide important services to citizens. One of the provided services is the high availability and performance of the VMware based vCloud platform. “We It’s all important.”

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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

APRIL 25, 2018

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary VMware announced last week vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 announcement updates followed those from this past March when VMware announced cloud enhancements with partner AWS (more on that […] The post VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7

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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 This is the third of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part IV (scaling ROBO […] The post VMware vSAN V6.6

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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

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

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

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 This is the second of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, part III (reducing cost and complexity) located here, part IV (scaling […] The post VMware vSAN V6.6

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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

JANUARY 12, 2014

Finding a Windows physical disk, SSD or storage system device name So you may know and how to find out the more familiar Windows storage device (Solid State […].

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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 This is the fifth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, part III (reducing […] The post VMware vSAN V6.6

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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

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

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 This is the fourth of a five-part series about VMware vSAN V6.6. View Part I here, Part II (just the speeds feeds please) is located here, […] The post 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

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

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

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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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2022

This naturally puts immense pressure on CIOs and CISOs to deal with the rapidly expanding threat landscape – and it’s much more than securing network connections. It now extends to the people at their desks or at the edges of the company network, creating weak points.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2017

PCIe Server Storage I/O Network Fundamentals #blogtober Peripheral Computer Interconnect Express aka PCIe is a Server, Storage, I/O networking fundamental component.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Networking. The rise of Linux in importance in the networking industry continues, with Arista announcing enhancements to Arista EOS to support—among other things—Docker containers. See this SDx Central article or this Network World article for more details.). I hope something I’ve included here will be helpful—enjoy!

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Various Data Infrastructure including hardware, software, services related […] The post Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The realm of edge computing has witnessed a substantial surge in recent years, propelled by the proliferation of remote work, the Internet of Things (IoT), and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies, which have necessitated connectivity at the network’s periphery and novel applications.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2017

The post Chelsio Storage over IP and other Networks Enable Data Infrastructures appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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 10, 2017

One of the announcements included VMware partnering to deliver vSphere, vSAN and NSX data infrastructure components for creating software defined data centers (SDDC) also known as multi cloud, and hybrid cloud leveraging AWS elastic bare metal servers (read more here in a companion post).

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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

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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Because an NVP upgrade is a pretty big deal—it could have an effect on the network connectivity of all the VMs and hypervisors within the NVP domain—it typically involves lots of planning, lots of testing, proper backups of all the components, and so on. Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture.

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