In November 2009 I already did a review on StorMagic’s SvSAN and was then very pleased with the product. Now, three years later I’m again reviewing SvSAN and am anxious to see if in those three years SvSAN has improved. The Concept For those not familiar with StorMagic SvSAN I will shortly explain what SvSAN does. […]
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Important info on vSphere5 VAAI for EMC VNX / CX4
When creating a design for our new vSphere 5 environment I found some strange mismatches in supported configurations. Turns out VAAI is supported on VNX and CX4 when used in a vSphere4 environment, but the CX4 has no VAAI support when used in a vSphere 5 environment. VMware suggests disabling VAAI at ESXi level when […]
How to make vCenter datastore alarms useful
When visiting customers I noticed that the VMware admin often doesn’t really know how much free space is left on the datastores and wether action is needed to free up space or get extra capacity. When I show them the datastore overview in the VI Client that shows the warnings and alerts for the datastores, […]
Performance test of Iomega StorCenter PX4-300R
End of 2009, beginning of 2010 I put an Iomega StorCenter IX4 to the test and published the results in these two blogposts: Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega StorCenter IX4-200D and part 2. Recently Iomega sent me their new StorCenter PX4-300R for testing purpose and I was happy […]
Tintri VMstore – VM only storage appliance
Last evening I had a WebEx session with Tintri in which they told me about their “VM only” storage appliance VMstore and I must admit that I’m impressed with what they have to offer. I have not yet had the opportunity to test this appliance, all info in this blog post is from the WebEx […]