Apr 17th, 2010 |
By Joerg Hallbauer |
Category: Featured, Server Virtualization, Storage
Lately, I’m being asked more and more what my recommendations are around path management. In this blog entry I describe the current state of path management and outline some recommendations for the use/implementation of path management software in the data center.
Tags: DMP, MPIO, NMP, path management, PowerPath, PowerPath/VE, SATP, vmware Posted in Featured, Server Virtualization, Storage |
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Apr 22nd, 2009 |
By Stephen Foskett |
Category: Server Virtualization, Storage
Hiding in the shadow of the huge VMware vSphere 4 announcement was a very interesting introduction by EMC: PowerPath/VE. As I mentioned in my post on storage changes in vSphere 4, PowerPath/VE plugs into the new pluggable storage architecture (PSA) found in vSphere 4 versions of ESX and takes over the decision-making and heavy-lifting tasks related to communicating with storage systems.D
Tags: ATF, Chad Sakac, Chuck Hollis, CLARiiON, Computer history, Conley, DMP, EMC, Enterprise storage, ESX, Gestalt IT, HDLM, HP-UX, Hyper-V, iSCSI, latency, Microsoft, MPIO, performance, PowerPath, PowerPath/VE, PVlinks, SDD, Veritas, Virtual Storage, vmware, vSphere Posted in Server Virtualization, Storage |
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Apr 21st, 2009 |
By Stephen Foskett |
Category: All, Server Virtualization, Storage
VMware officially launched their next-generation (version 4) enterprise family of products today under the “vSphere 4″ name. As I’ve been doing for the last few major ESX releases, I’m focusing this post on the storage changes present in vSphere 4.
Tags: Enterprise storage, ESX, Gestalt IT, licensing, PowerPath, PowerPath/VE, PSA, PSP, PVSCSI, SATP, Storage vMotion, thin provisioning, VCB, vCenter, Virtual Storage, VMDirectPath, VMFS, vmware, vSphere Posted in All, Server Virtualization, Storage |
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