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Serve NFS and CIFS from your VMware Virtual SAN
I have seen the question of being able to serve NFS and CIFS storage from VMware Virtual SAN comes up often lately, as customers want to be able to serve files storage to their VMs for different reasons, below is couples of reasons I have heard often: My applications requires file sharing via NFS or CIFS/SMB…
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Is VMware Virtual SAN Production Ready Yet?
Lately, one of the question that keep coming during any Software Define Data Center architecture session with my customers: “Is VMware VSAN ready for production environment?”. The short answer is: it depends, for a longer version explanation please keep reading. Before I got into details of the answer to the question if VMware Virtual SAN…
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Time to upgrade to StarWind Virtual SAN V8
While I was upgrading my Home lab to the latest vCloud Suite with all the new nice goodies that VMware has just released like vCAC 6.1, vSphere 5.5U2, vCenter 5.5U2, ESXi 5.5U2, vCenter Orchestrator 5.5U2 and so on. I was really excited about these new arrivals and rushing to do the upgrade, but I had…
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Free VMTurbo Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio® and OmniGraffle
As a part of my consulting job, I end up using Visio to generate a lot of design diagrams (One of the reasons I had to format my MacBook Pro with Windows). For that reason I am always hungry for new Visio Stencils especially when they are specific to my field and being free. The…
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What’s New in StarWind SAN V8
StarWind SAN V8 RC has just been released with a lot of new features. Below is a summary of what to look for in this release: Log-structured File System: • VAAI UNMAP command implemented. • Internal structures changed to ensure compatibility with upcoming updates. • Improvements made for operations with VSS providers. Flash cache: •…
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EMC VPLEX – vSphere 5.1 Stretched Cluster Best Practices
The demand for across site VMotion and High Availability/Business continuity has shown an increase in the past year or so. I have started to see more customers implementing/considering such solution. I remember when VMware added support for vSphere stretched clusters about a year back, where only EMC VPLEX was on the Hardware Compatibility list. Actually…
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Free StarWind iSCSI SAN Training/Webinar
StarWind has asked me if I can share this info about their upcoming free Free StarWind iSCSI SAN Training/Webinar titled “Your Way to Complete Storage Redundancy!”. I thought as many of you will be looking at creating your own virtual storage for home lab or even at work you might want to look at their…