Posts Tagged ‘VMware VSA’
Whiteboxing part 3: Choosing storage for your homelab
December 28th, 2012 | 
Author: After a long time I want to continue my series on building out your own home lab. Up next: Storage. What to choose, how to build it? I will be focussing on building out shared storage in this blog post. Yes you could use local disks just fine without sharing them outside that one box, but that is not where the hard choices lie. Once you decide you want shared storage, the questions start to pop up and decisions have to be made.
Different approaches to storage in your home lab
Before you start buying disks or SSDs, first things first. To begin with it is very important to make some base decisions. Some the most important Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Storage, VMware | 
Tags: FreeNAS, home lab, homelab, local storage, Nexenta, Openfiler, Virtual Storage Appliance, VMware VSA, VSA, vSphere homelab, vSphere local storage, vSphere Sotrage Appliance, whitebox | 
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VMworld 2012 Storage Nerdvana: vVols, vSAN and vFlash
Announced this year at VMworld 2012 (Watch the Monday general session from 51:26) were several cool technologies coming from VMware in the near future that focus on storage, or rather vStorage: Virtual Volumes (vVols), Virtual SAN (vSAN) and Virtual Flash (vFlash?). So what is this all about, and where is it going?
Virtual Volumes or vVols
How SAN and NAS systems work today, is something that they have been doing for years: Take a bunch of disks, stripe data across Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Designing the Future, Storage, VMware, VMware news |
Tags: Flash infrastructure, HBR, Host Based Replication, storage nerdvana, vFlash, Virtual Flash, Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes, VMware Flash infrastructure, VMware VDP, VMware VSA, vmworld, VMworld 2012, VMworld San Francisco, vSAN, Vsphere replication, vSphere Storage Appliance, vVols |
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