In respond to the VCE alliance which had been gaining famous in town, NetApp had officially launched the VCN alliance yesterday to provide the 1st secure multi-tenancy solution worldwide to the potential customer. This alliance partnership are slightly different from VCE as there will not be a join venture company to sell this solution in 1 part number. They are targeting to sell this solution through the certified partner worldwide.
You can have a full view about the VCN alliance details from here.
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I just went through FUSION IO who producing the high performance disk drive into the PCIE x 4 and supported various brand of server such as IBM, HP, DELL and etc. I am very impressed with this product as it may resolve the performance issues that are currently facing by the enterprise environment.
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Recently there are some request from my client who suggested to have their production and DR site to be automated protected and fail over in the event of disaster. VMware SRM seems to be right choice for most of the time, but these clients are decided to bring it to another level of fail over procedure during the DR happen. I am doing some research today and found this interesting topic from Netapp which the Metro cluster suppose to synchronize from production to DR through dark fiber to prevent controller failure, DR or disk corruption.
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Netapp had official release the virtual storage console for VMware ESX host. You can view more information from here.
If you are netapp existing customers, you can download the software from here
Below is the summary I link from Netapp official blog site
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Netapp had officially announce the latest Data Ontap 8 weeks ago. Here are some of the key features which may help to improve the capabilities of the existing Netapp users to reach the cloud solution, IaaS or ITaaS. Below are the new key features which contains in the new Data Ontap 8.
NetApp Data Motion – NetApp’s new data motion technology allows enterprises to move data nondisruptively across storage systems with zero application downtime. Now customers can eliminate the impact of planned maintenance outages in virtualized multi-tenant environments. NetApp Data Motion is the first solution of its kind in the storage industry and builds upon the NetApp unified storage architecture to greatly enhance availability for both internal and external cloud customers.
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