Finally Hitachi Data System(HDS) released the Storage Manager Plugin for VMware vCenter server.
Hitachi Data Systems announces the availability of specific integration for VMware’s vCenter called “Hitachi Storage
Manager for VMware vCenter”. Hitachi, Ltd. and Hitachi Data Systems jointly developed this functionality in which this will
be installed as a separate plug-in for VMware vCenter. Customers upgrading to vSphere 4.1 and vSphere 5.0 using the
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform or Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V will
automatically be able to leverage the capabilities of this key integration.
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If you are following Cisco Unified computing solution, here is some good news. The latest firmware version 1.4 is officially support direct attach FCoE Storage protocol without require the additional SAN switch as previous version. Both Netapp and EMC are officially supported and certified to direct attach with the Cisco UCS without a SAN switch require. This will reduce the complex layer it require to deploy especially for those environment who are not FC users previously.
I found some very good post over the internet, you can refer the URL below for more information about the new update provided in Firmware 1.4
Unified Computing Blog
M. Sean McGee
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Unified Storage………Sounds new to you? or sounds familiar to you? No right or wrong answer here, but it had become the dream of every storage vendor to offer this to their client especially in mid range, enterprise and virtualization environment. I remembered Netapp was the 1st started this, follow by other competitors in the market.
What is unified storage?
A single platform support multi-protocol such as FC, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS, FCoE and etc. It also support file, volume and block level data access.
You will able to get the unified box from either Netapp, EMC and HDS in the market now.
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Mid Range storage is getting more exciting from time to time due to large scale virtualization and cloud computing adoption worldwide.
Today I had read through Virtual Geek blog about the exciting new product range coming soon in the near future with scale out architecture more than 100 cores for CPUs in storage controllers and more than 1000 Drives in total which call VNX. You can read more details from here. I am absolutely excited about this new product range which will transform the traditional mid-range or enterprise storage to the next level.
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To deploy Microsoft Cluster on VMware ESX 4.1 is not new thing, you may need to choose the right storage protocol in this case. According to VMware best practices, on Fiber Channel SAN will be supported with the current version. You will need to present the Share Storage via FC LUN to build the microsoft cluster in VMware environment. ISCSI & NFS both are not supported in this case.
You can view the Official VMware Documentation from here.
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