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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Storage de-duplication is not a new term in the IT industry. It had been a while since few years back. Many users are confused with this term. Same goes to the Cloud Computing. Every Storage vendor will claim they have the de-duplication solution today, but they are different from each others as we know.
General de-duplication solution:
- Primary SAN de-duplication
- Appliance target base de-duplication
- Host base de-duplication
- Software base de-duplication
I may had missed out some of them, but these should cover majority of the de-deduplication solution in the market today.
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I had spoken to quite a numbers of prospect which considering to deploy private cloud or virtual infrastructure to the mass production environment. Often, we found that the users are not comfortable with most of the vendor approach which tend to be the BOX pushers. Beside this, I did realize that the market are surrounding with Oversell strategy which even doesn’t justify the TCO and ROI to the users as a consumer. During the conversation we had, Client had pointed out some key concerns which is valid to certain extend. Customers today, will not want a vendor to perform the server virtualization without considering others solution around. I am absolutely agree and glad to hear this as we all had went through the infrastructure technology transformation in the pass few years with all kind of challenges experiences.
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Is a very tired week for me since I had traveled 3 different locations within 2 weeks time for business purposes. This morning, while I woke up and checked my email, I realized John Troyer from VMware, who is the MAN that organize the vExpert 2009 and 2010 nomination had dropped me an email about the vExpert 2010. I am very happy to receive the email from VMware again. I would like to thanks VMware for the vExpert 2010, and also thank you to the people around me which provided all the opportunity during my career which allowed me to blog most of the finding for knowledge sharing purposes. I will definitely continue blog about virtualization, data center solution, cloud computing solutions, and reply more questions in VMTN or VMUG from time to time.
Today, 10 G Ethernet consider as common technology at least to the enterprise customer. Many of us are looking into 10G Ethernet from server to switch via L2 or L3 networking perspective. The main reason behind this are due to the Virtualization and Cloud Computing technology driven. Few years ago when we came out the design with multiple gigabits NICs on the ESX host to support NIC teaming, load balancing and etc, which may end up deliver around 14 Gbps of network bandwidth and 8Gbps of FC bandwidth per host. Each ESX host are consolidate 20 to 30 virtual machines. At that time, this may be the best option we could had done due to technology limitation. Is this design GOOD enough? I will say yes for previously, and NO for today technology availability.
Photo shot of the real environment which have 14 gigabits NIC Ports and 4 x 2 Gbps FC.
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