CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to significantly improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat rose to the challenge.

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Storage IO Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

For those of you in VMware environments, now is the time to add VVOL to your vocabulary which might mean simply taking the time to read a piece like this, or digging deeper into the theories of operations, configuration, usage, hints and tips, tutorials along with vendor specific implementations.

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Computer Weekly

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Scandinavian retailer Coop simplifies virtual server storage with VMware Virtual SAN software-defined storage and sidesteps bandwidth bottlenecks on NetApp Metro Cluster replication

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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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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Overlooked in the hoopla around the VMworld conference was an announcement of the availability of AppDefense, a new product that lets companies restrict the types of operations applications are allowed to run on virtualized servers. AppDefense secures the core virtual machines in vSphere itself.

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Computer Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2016

VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol

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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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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Enhances hybrid cloud, virtual networking and storage, launched own OpenStack distro Read More. Cloud Computing Virtualization VMware'

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Data Center Knowledge

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Featured Storage Virtualization' After more than two years in stealth mode, company formerly known as Storvisor makes official debut Read More.

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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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Scott Lowe

MARCH 19, 2013

I’ve been phenomenally lucky to be involved in a number of book projects around VMware vSphere. Today I’m excited to announce that Forbes Guthrie and I–along with some support from Kendrick Coleman–have undertaken a revision of that book, to be released as VMware vSphere Design, 2nd Edition.

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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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Galido

AUGUST 13, 2016

Large 2 TB storage capacity. Virtualization environment support for VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Virtual Iron. Enhances VMware environments by enabling VMotion, VMware HA, DRS and VCB. Get it here: Convert Windows Servers into Shared Storage. This is a fully functional product at no cost.

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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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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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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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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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Storage IO Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

Overall I give the Lenovo TS140 a provisional "A" which would be a solid "A" once the BIOS/firmware issue mentioned above is resolved for VMware, otoh, if you are not concerned about using the TS140 for VMware, then consider it as an "A". The post Lenovo TS140 Server and Storage I/O Review appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

Well, the title kind of says it all—yes, there will be an update to the popular Mastering VMware vSphere 5 book, with new content for the vSphere 5.5 However, this book represents more than just another title in the Mastering VMware vSphere series. Chad and I chatted, geeked out on some VMware stuff, and became buddies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Instead, multi-cloud is now synonymous with business agility across industries and among organizations of virtually every size. Such an architecture constitutes a “supercloud” that delivers inherent resiliency, virtually unlimited capacity, and compute power the cloud embodies. It is a movement that is also accelerating.

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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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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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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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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

MARCH 25, 2014

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). Some recent industry activity has included Cisco announcing its Cloud intentions (e.g.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

We believe the objectives we have laid out in our sustainability plan, and our participation in efforts like the VMware Zero Carbon Committed initiative are important first from a corporate responsibility perspective,” he adds. Learn more about Telefónica and its partnership with VMware here. Green IT, IT Leadership

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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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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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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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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Today marks my “two week anniversary” in my new role at VMware. My entire first week was taken up by new hire onboarding and some training on Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). That’s it for me, two weeks into my new role at VMware. Life at VMware, Two Weeks In.

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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. These HHDDs or SSHDs are self-contained in that the flash are built-in to the actual drive as part of its internal electronics circuit board (controller).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of joining Richard Campbell on RunAs Radio to talk VMware NSX and network virtualization. If you’d like to hear us get geeky about network virtualization and where it might take our industry, head over and listen to episode 346. Talking Network Virtualization on RunAs Radio.

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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 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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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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