Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Instead of a VM host accessing its virtual disk (aka VMDK) which is stored in a VMFS formatted data store (part of ESXi hypervisor) built on top of a SCSI LUN (e.g. VVOL’s shift more intelligence and work from the hypervisor down into the storage system.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2014

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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

The vulnerability affects virtually all Linux distributions and allows attackers to bypass the secure boot protections and insert a low-level bootkit. VMware is patching a set of severe “sandbox escape” bugs. out of 10, and even VMware’s flagship ESXi hypervisor is affected. Read more about it in this post.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

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

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After all, an effective multicloud framework offers greater platform and service flexibility by leveraging the strengths of multiple cloud environments to drive business agility and innovation. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools. Each cloud is a silo of specific, often proprietary services and tools.

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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

MARCH 25, 2014

Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Founded in 1998, iomart began providing cloud services as the new millennium arrived. s most successful and trusted providers of cloud services and solutions. Today, the Glasgow-based firm has customers in both the public and private sectors, including businesses in virtually every industry.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

And this is our shared goal and vision together with VMware. VMware has an amazing opportunity to further grow and scale its pioneering virtualization technology, and Broadcom is committed to innovation and building VMware’s professional services capabilities. The core technology to do this already exists at VMware.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thus as this is a peoples choice process, I’m asking if you can take a few moments and cast your vote (thank you in advance) which I hope includes StorageIOblog.com as part of the top ten, in addition to being nominated in the Storage, Podcast and Independent blogger categories.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 17, 2024

In this Technology Short Take, I have links on things ranging from physical network designs to running retro operating systems as virtual machines. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management Open Policy Agent (OPA) is approaching their 1.0 Storage Steven Sklar explains how CSI (Container Storage Interface) works.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 27, 2013

Congratulations to VMware on 10 years of VMworld! 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. Here are a synopsis of some of those announcements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

There is only one pathway forward and that involves making rapid and deep cuts in emissions – including at data centers and across the cloud computing industry that is absolutely fundamental and crucial for how we work and nearly everything we produce.”. – PeaSoup embraces environmental friendly immersive cooling for cloud services.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 21, 2019

Driving ROI with Cloud Storage Consolidation Seminars Driving ROI with Cloud Storage Consolidation Seminars Join me in a series of in-person seminars driving ROI with cloud storage consolidation for unstructured file data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Daniel Ribaya González, director of cloud products and services at Telefónica Tech, says the company recognizes the urgent need to reduce global CO2 emissions. “As Learn more about Telefónica and its partnership with VMware here. As a company, we have strengthened our commitment to help limit the global temperature increase to 1.5

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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

We talk about the role of automation for performance and capacity optimization along with how VMware vCOPs plays an important role. The post Matt Vogt of Computex talks VMware vCOPs in his first ever podcast appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Storage IO Blog

JULY 10, 2013

Converged Compute, SSD Storage and Clouds Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced today several enhancements to their data storage and unified compute portfolio as part of their Maximize I.T. initiative.

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs #blogtobertech The following are Ten tips to reduce your cloud compute storage costs. In some cases, reducing your cloud costs means spending the same yet getting more value and resources that provide a business benefit.

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Galido

APRIL 11, 2017

Virtualization is popular these days for businesses for several reasons, but primarily to reduce hardware and infrastructure costs, performance, backups and redundancy, while being able to scale infrastructure and provide resources on demand. . What is Virtualization? There are two methods of running virtualized software.

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Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Server virtualization nested and tiered hypervisors A few years ago I did a piece (click here) about the then emerging trend of tiered hypervisors, particular using different products or technologies in the same environment.

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Virtualized Greek

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I’m a huge fan of VMware products. VMware has long been the thought leader in x86 virtualization products both on the desktop and in the data center. Add to it the vSphere suite and it’s pretty difficult to find a better virtualization solution. This is where I believe VMware is having difficulty in their vision.

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Storage IO Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that the drives should be transparent to the operating systems or hypervisors on servers or storage controllers without need for special adapters, controller cards or drivers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

In what’s quickly becoming the de facto benchmarking standard for HPC storage, the IO500 named several Dell-based systems including those from CSIRO in Australia, Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Stanford University in the US. Dell Unveils Storage Advancements. CSIRO’s Bracewell Delivers Deep Learning, Bionic Vision.

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Virtualized Greek

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In my opinion, VMware is much too dependent on their vSphere product suite. This isn’t an analysis of VMware’s sales or market share. Earlier, I wrote a post on VMware’s path to ruling the datacenter. I also wrote a post on how VMware maybe on the path of previous tech giants such as Novell.

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Scott Lowe

APRIL 30, 2013

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. emphasis mine).

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Storage IO Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model #blogtobertech The following is a new Industry Trends Perspective White Paper Report titled Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Moreover, Koch itself is in the middle of a digital transformation that adds cloud networking to the mix, further complicating the challenge. Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Dell Inspiron 660 i660, Virtual Server Diamond in the rough? 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

JULY 24, 2018

AWS Snowball Edge SBE Converged Cloud Storage Appliance AWS Snowball Edge SBE Converged Cloud Storage Appliance As part of extending their cloud platform reach, recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcements include AWS Snowball Edge SBE Converged Cloud Storage Appliance.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

For example in along with around server, storage and IO networking circles including virtual as well as cloud environments terms such as nand (Negated AND or NOT And) flash memory aka (Solid State Device or SSD), […].

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Virtualized Greek

APRIL 24, 2013

Scott Lowe was a guest on the latest episode of VMware Community Podcast and was discussing Network Virtualization. He has deep experience with both Networking and Server Virtualization. He was a guest on the podcast to discuss Network Virtualization. I like to say virtualization is like the DVR.

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Storage IO Blog

JANUARY 12, 2014

Some Windows Server Storage I/O related commands The following are some commands and tools for Microsoft Windows environments that are useful for storage I/O activities (among others).

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Virtualized Greek

AUGUST 25, 2013

Trying to kill time on the plane on my way to VMworld 2013; my mind got to wondering what VMware needs to show at VMworld 2013 in order to maintain their position within the enterprise. VMware has some great technology. They also have some great competition within their main space – Server Virtualization.

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