Comments on: DV07 – Optimizing storage for virtual desktops http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/dv07-%e2%80%93-optimizing-storage-for-virtual-desktops/ Your P.I. on virtualization Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:28:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steveh http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/dv07-%e2%80%93-optimizing-storage-for-virtual-desktops/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Steveh Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:47:05 +0000 http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=50#comment-61 Pillar's Application allows the admin to prioritize LUNs by writing high priority LUNs close to the spindles of the disk where access is faster. Therefore, if you run applications with high I/O requirements you can give those LUNs the prime space on your disks. We have an Axiom 3 in production and are running an Oracle DB and Exchange 2007 as VMs on high priority LUNs. I think this feature of their product stems from their relationship to Oracle's CEO. You'll need to look at your what you want to run to see if this feature has any value to you. If your interested in Pillar I will say this about them. Their service is very good and so far the product has been rock solid. Pillar’s Application allows the admin to prioritize LUNs by writing high priority LUNs close to the spindles of the disk where access is faster. Therefore, if you run applications with high I/O requirements you can give those LUNs the prime space on your disks. We have an Axiom 3 in production and are running an Oracle DB and Exchange 2007 as VMs on high priority LUNs. I think this feature of their product stems from their relationship to Oracle’s CEO. You’ll need to look at your what you want to run to see if this feature has any value to you. If your interested in Pillar I will say this about them. Their service is very good and so far the product has been rock solid.

]]> By: IanST2 http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/dv07-%e2%80%93-optimizing-storage-for-virtual-desktops/comment-page-1/#comment-60 IanST2 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:16:18 +0000 http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=50#comment-60 As a fan of NetApp and VMware for sometime the De-Dupe etc is all good stuff. But I was also took some interest in the Pillar Storage Products which claim to be "application aware storage"; I went to their presentation at VMworld but wasn't 100% sure how they really differed from the others in the storage arena (apart from the 20% less than NetApp cost claim) As a fan of NetApp and VMware for sometime the De-Dupe etc is all good stuff. But I was also took some interest in the Pillar Storage Products which claim to be “application aware storage”; I went to their presentation at VMworld but wasn’t 100% sure how they really differed from the others in the storage arena (apart from the 20% less than NetApp cost claim)

]]> By: Duncan http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/dv07-%e2%80%93-optimizing-storage-for-virtual-desktops/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Duncan Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:26:17 +0000 http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=50#comment-59 De-Duplication is a cool solution for backing up data indeed. I worked with the DataDomain appliances in the past which definitely did what you would expect. EMC's Avamar is also a cool solution, it's an agent which de-dupes the data before it's send over the network and received on the SAN. De-Duplication is a cool solution for backing up data indeed. I worked with the DataDomain appliances in the past which definitely did what you would expect.

EMC’s Avamar is also a cool solution, it’s an agent which de-dupes the data before it’s send over the network and received on the SAN.

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