You may have assumed from my previous post on VPLEX that I am negative towards the concept of storage federation. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, ever since I was involved in deploying ESX onto enterprise storage infrastructure (some 4 years ago), I’ve been waiting for the … [Read more...]
EMC VPLEX – A Dreary Storage Cluster?
May 14, 2010 by 4 Comments
Those of you with relatively good memories will remember last year’s announcement from Hitachi/HDS, which at the time promised more than it delivered. In fact, the anagram posed by Claus Mikkelsen on his blog and used as part of the press release was “REGRADES OUR CLASSY TREATS” and should … [Read more...]
EMC VPLEX: New Device or Future Array?
May 13, 2010 by 2 Comments
Okay, some more riffing on the subject of VPLEX; just idle speculation and I expect either no comment or complete denial from EMC. In VPLEX, do we see the future of EMC storage? Or more accurately, do we see the future of Symmetrix? Is it the beginning of the end for Symmetrix and more … [Read more...]
V(per)PLEXed?
May 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
So we have VPLEX and despite some scratching of heads as to what it is; it is really quite simple, 'storage access is further decoupled from storage physicality' And this really is nothing especially new; decoupling the storage access from storage physicality has been going on for some time. … [Read more...]
EMC Shouts VPLEX In A Crowded EMCWorld
May 10, 2010 by 6 Comments
Likes: Storage federation, virtual environments, easy migration, multi-vendor block storage. Dislikes: Object, cloud, files, lower-case letters, hyphens. Amid much fanfare and, EMC launched VPLEX today at EMCWorld 2010 in Boston. The company previously outlined the vision for … [Read more...]