Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design – Part 4: Throughput
In this fourth post of the multi-post Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design we will dive deeper in the dimension: Use and specifically the application Workloads part characteristic Throughput. Depending on the application workload requirements, you will need to size the storage system for…
Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design – Part 3: Speed
In this third post of the multi-post Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design we will dive deeper in the dimension: Use and specifically the application Workloads part characteristic Speed. Depending on the application workload requirements, you will need to size the storage system for…
Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design – Part 2: Workloads
In this second post of the multi-post Three Dimensions of Storage Sizing & Design we will dive deeper in the dimension: Use and specifically the application Workloads part. By developing an understanding of the different kind of workloads and their characteristics will enable you to…
Diablo Memory Channel Storage: The new Flash storage standard?
During VMworld we had the opportunity to sit down with Ricky Trigalo en Kevin Wagner from Diablo technologies to talk about their storage solution called “Memory Channel Storage” (MCS). Basically this means that you insert NAND flash memory into a memory bank instead of your standard…
StarWind compared to VMware and Hyper-V
With both VMware and Microsoft developing software based storage solutions, we started to wonder what kind of edge a product like StarWind still would have on these solutions. When we asked StarWind, they quickly replied with a couple of feature comparison documents. These documents point out…
HP finally killed the EVA
Today Alex discovered a public secret HP has been denying for some time but now they finally killed the HP EVA. When HP bought 3PAR back in 2010 the rumors quickly spread that HP would replace the EVA with their newly acquired 3PAR storage solutions….
Review: Synology Diskstation DS1513+ with VMware – Part 1
So the holiday is over back to other fun things like reviewing a shiny new Synology Diskstation DS1513+. Our friends at Synology where so kind to ship us a brand new unit. Which is now sitting next to my desk ready to be tested. I…
Whiptail storage solutions
Last week I was able to attend a presentation from Whiptail in which they talked about their flash-based storage array. With their product portfolio they offer storage solutions that deliver high levels of speed for applications which produce high loads on storage. Whiptail positions itself…
SmartStack by Cisco, Nimble & VMware
Last week Nimble Storage announced a new reference architecture called SmartStack, with Cisco Systems and VMware for 1.000 simultaneous VDI users, requiring only 3U of rack space, for $43 for storage per desktop. A pre-configured, fully-integrated system – built around the reference architecture, which consists…
AJ discusses VDI storage solutions
AJ discusses VDI storage solutions with Jonathan Klick from VKernel/Quest/Dell.
QNAP announces firmware update with full VMware VAAI support.
Yesterday at the VMworld 2012 Europe event in Barcelona I spoke with an engineer from QNAP at their booth. He told us that QNAP will be introducing a new firmware release for their Pro line. The version number will probably be 3.8 (current…
Nimble Storage announces CS400-series, ES-series & Nimble OS 2.0
In the past we at VMGuru.nl have been great fans of Dell EqualLogic storage solutions for it’s simplicity and with our current employer we have learned the advantages of NetApp storage systems and it’s completeness. But why should we have to choose? Why can’t we…
StarWind Offers Free NFR Licenses for Lab Testing, Demonstration, and Training Purposes
Starwind is an innovative company and one of the first to offer an iSCSI initiator on the Microsoft Windows platform without a lot of hassle. The company offers Not For Resale (NFR) licenses to some specific groups of IT professionals. If you hold or are…
Update: Storage optimization with Atlantis
Since my article on ‘Storage Optimization with Atlantis‘ on April 3rd, I’ve been in contact with Atlantis and got some additional information I would like to share with you. First of all, in the article it says the following: Another point of interest is, does…
Storage optimization with Atlantis
In our quest for native PC performance in a VDI solution we are always looking for better, faster and simpler storage solutions. To improve storage performance several vendors have introduced different solutions like controller cache, SSD disks, flash memory. Last week I received an e-mail…