Windows 8 server editions will include a filter driver for NTFS for data deduplication The next version of Microsoft Windows Server includes integrated data deduplication technology. Microsoft is positioning this as a boon for server virtualization and claims it has very little performance … [Read more...]
DroboPro – Hyper-V’s Best Friend!
March 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of vmfs support within the Drobo operating system, especially as the product sells itself on … [Read more...]
Windows Storage Server-Based Systems Step Into 2008
May 5, 2009 by 2 Comments
Windows Storage Server is one of the most interesting products from Redmond. It is a specialized version of Windows Server 2003 R2 with integrated storage target capabilities, including iSCSI, NFS, and of course SMB file services. It also includes single-instance storage (file-level deduplication), … [Read more...]
P2V strategy for a Physical Server with an iSCSI Partition
January 27, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Most physical to virtual migrations (P2V) of servers end up as virtual machines with the partitions encapsulated in virtual disk (.vmdk or .vhd) files. But what if the physical server already has a partition that’s configured through an iSCSI connection to the SAN, and what if that’s the same … [Read more...]