Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While Microsoft Windows Server recently celebrated its 20th birthday (or anniversary), a lot has changed as well as evolved. This includes Windows Servers 2016 supporting new deployment and consumption models (e.g. The post Gaining Server Storage I/O Insight into Microsoft Windows Server 2016 appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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

MARCH 28, 2018

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Insiders Preview has been announced. Windows Server 2019 in the past might have been named 2016 R2 also known as a Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) release.

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Storage IO Blog

JUNE 7, 2018

Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Announcing Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event Microsoft will be hosting a free (no registration required) half day virtual (e.g. online) Windows Server Summit Virtual Online Event June 26, 2018 starting at 9AM PT.

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Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” Public Beta Available Today! As you know, one of the products I work on is Windows Home Server. Today we’re excited to announce that the next version of Windows Home Server (codename “Vail”) is available for you to try. Online Backup. (5). What’s new?

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

Happy 20th Birthday Microsoft Windows Server, get ready for Windows Server 2016 August 3, 2016 – 1:48 pm Print Friendly Version of this pagePrint Get a PDF version of this webpagePDF Happy 20th Birthday Windows Server, ready for Server 2016?

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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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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 29, 2016

could make RDP connections to modern Windows systems. Michael Preston shares his thoughts on containers in a post titled “A VMware guy’s perspective on containers.” I know that a lot of my readers are VMware-centric in their jobs and careers, so I think Michael’s post may be helpful to a lot of folks. Way to go, Daniel!

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Servers/Hardware.

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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

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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Galido

JUNE 28, 2018

Windows and WMI performance counters. They also provide a Windows, Android and iOS app, enabling you to connect to more than one core server to retrieve monitoring data. What to Monitor. PRTG monitors all types of systems, devices and applications in your IT infrastructure: SNMP: Ready to use and with customization options.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Granted, it’s a VMware post, so it may gloss over some details, but it’s still a decent look at what’s possible when you take the abstractions and APIs offered by a solution like NSX. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Run Windows containers on the Mac. Servers/Hardware.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

VMware has a similar offering via the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service recovery-as-a-service offering. Preston Bannister took a look at cloud application backup in OpenStack. Mike Foley has a blog post on how to go from zero to Windows domain controller in only 4 reboots. on a headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Performance: Based on highly scientific (read: utterly subjective) tests, I’m pretty pleased with Xenial’s performance, both virtual (using both VMware Fusion and VirtualBox) and on bare (laptop) metal. This is a big issue, and one that anyone seeking to migrate off OS X (or Windows, for that matter) must address. Data Formats.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Microsoft has made several announcements this week at Ignite including Azure cloud related, AI, IoT, Windows platforms, O365 among others. More about Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack, Windows Server, Hyper-V and related data infrastructure topics in future posts.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

28, 2018 at 11am PT / 2pm ET Windows Server and Hyper-V software defined data center (SDDC) based applications need […] The post Benefits of Moving Hyper-V Disaster Recovery to the Cloud Webinar appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Given my previous role at EMC (involved in storage) and my current role at VMware focused on network virtualization (which encompasses SDN), I was quite curious. Vormetric interested me because they offer a data encryption product, and I was interested to see how—if at all—they integrated with VMware vSphere.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

or those who are into, or simply like to talk about software-defined storage (SDS), APIs, Windows, Virtual Hard Disks (VHD) or VHDX, or Hyper-V among other related themes, have you ever actually looked at the specification for VHDX? How about Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, are you familiar with that?

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Scott Lowe

JUNE 22, 2015

Firshman shows off the use of the VMware Fusion driver for Docker Machine so that he can deploy some containers defined via Docker Compose to run/test the application on his local laptop. Microsoft is contributing Windows support to runC. The live demo doesn’t quite work as expected.) ARM support is underway.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 16, 2016

For example, you might feel “locked in” to Microsoft (via Office or Windows) or “locked in” to Oracle (via their database platform or applications), or even “locked in” to VMware through vCenter and vSphere. Let’s assume, just for the purposes of discussion, that using KVM on Linux offers less lock-in than using VMware vSphere.

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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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

Well worth reading for VMware admins and architects. Windows Backup has native Hyper-V support in Windows Server 2012. General KVM Linux Networking OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet RedHat SDN Security Storage Virtualization VMware vSphere' Interested in some OpenStack inception? How about some oVirt inception?

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 30, 2018

April 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Volume 18, Issue 4 (April 2018) Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter Hello and welcome to the April 2018 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 17, 2017

Need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Cloud Software Defined Data Infrastructure topics including reference architecture among other resources for various application workloads? Microsoft Azure has an architecture and resources page (here) that includes various application workload reference tools.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Some of the popular posts for 2016 are perennial favorites and based on experience will probably appear on the 2017 list. However there are also several new posts that appeared in 2016 that I suspect will also appear on the 2017 version of the above list, along with new content from 2017.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Welcome to the September and October Server StorageIO Update Newsletter covering IT and Data Infrastructure spanning hardware, software, cloud, managed and software defined data infrastructure topics. The post September and October 2016 Server StorageIO Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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