One of my greatest frustrations as an end-user and as a researcher of storage technologies is the lack of quality commentary on storage technologies. This is an industry full of people who don’t actually work with storage technology as part of their normal job routines yet feel uniquely qualified to give opinions and lay claim [...]

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Some outdated recommendations for running VMs on VMware ESX over NetApp NFS have, unfortunately, led to some problems that resulted in corrupted VMs and lost data. Fortunately, there is a fix for the potential problem.

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For the last three years, VMworld has been one of the highlights of my year. The technical sessions are invaluable and the hype around VMware and their partners has really helped accelerate the growth and adaptation of server virtualization - something I am deeply passionate about. However, I think we are going to see things [...]

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Although VMworld 2008 has not officially started yet, some storage-related news is already leaking out. Here’s what I’ve seen so far.

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FlexClones or Deduplication? It’s an important question that must be asked before an organization can make the right decision on which storage technology to use during a virtualization implementation. Hopefully, the information presented here will help.

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Welcome to my first post at Storage Monkeys! I hope that I can share some useful information here with you, and I’ll do my best not to dwell too much on virtualization (the primary subject of this other little site that I also maintain).

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