Posts Tagged ‘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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My Dutch VMUG 2012 presentation: Software Defines Virtually Everything – Storage
Last week I did a presentation at the Dutch VMUG event around SDDC with a techical focus on the storage bits and pieces you could build inside the hypervisor to accomodate this. I want to share this presentation with you together with a little background on the subject.
Software Defines Virtually Everything
VMware has taken a big step towards the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This is where things are going for sure (also see my related post Cool Tech Preview: VMware’s distributed storage). The idea is that since “everything” runs on x86 anyway, you can potentially run all code on a common platform. From that view, everything will run in software. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Designing the Future, Storage, VMware |
Tags: distributed storage, Dutch VMUG, Dutch VMUG event, Dutch VMUG event 2012, EMC Isilon, SDDC, SDDC pitfalls, SDVE, Software Defined Datacenter, Storage defines virtually everything, vFlash, VMUG, VMware.storage, VSA, vSAN, Vsphere replication |
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