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Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i

Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_san_guide.pdf Last Updated: December 3, 2008 What’s New Changes since the last edition of this guide include:
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Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.0.x

Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.0.x http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_guide.pdf Last Updated: December 3, 2008 What’s New Changes since the last edition of this guide include:
  • Added support for HDS AMS 2100, 2300, 2500. See “Hitachi Data Systems (HDS),” on page 55.
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Behind XenServer Storage

In my previous post on the subject of storage (Is SAN really NAS spelled backwards), I introduced a fundamentals whitepaper. Behind XenServer Storage, builds on this and shows how XenServer leverages the different kinds of storage. Feedback welcome! View Online | Add Comment
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Storage Wars in tight economy: HP and IBM battle as EMC, Sun languish

So, Big Blue cranked up its PR machine, and pulled some statistics out of its, er, sales database and wanted everyone to know that more than 5,000 companies worldwide have replaced iron from HP, Sun Microsystems, and EMC since 2004 and moved to them to IBM alternatives.
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Virtual Instruments Demonstrates Its Award-Winning SAN Optimization Solution at Gartner Data Center Conference

Virtual Instruments Demonstrates Its Award-Winning SAN Optimization Solution at Gartner Data Center Conference
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Scripting Queue Depth in a QLogic/EMC environment

First of all, apologies to anyone using Emulex, non-EMC SANs - this guide isn't for you - I'll try make a guide at some other stage. Also, at the end of this guide, I will publish a script (based on this one) that you can run in your Service Console to optimize your SAN performance. First, lets define some variables that we need to tune in ESX:
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Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i

Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_san_guide.pdf Last Updated: November 19, 2008 What’s New Changes since the last edition of this guide include:
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Earnings Preview: NetApp

NetApp (NTAP) is expected to report Q2 earningsafter market close Wednesday Nov. 12, with a conference call scheduled for 5:00 pm ET. GuidanceThe consensus estimate is 27c for EPS and $904.58M for revenue, according to First Call. Guidance provided on the last earnings call was for EPS of 27c to 30c on revenue of $910M to $940M. Complete Story »
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NetApp Bolsters Midrange Storage Offering

NetApp announced the addition of the FAS3160 and V3160, adding to its current series of midrange storage offerings for customers. As part of the news, NetApp unveiled its plans to enable 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) support and provide enterprise flash Solid-State Drive (SSD) storage and flash-based caching modules for its FAS and V-Series products. "We needed a storage solution for our virtual server hosting service to help address the challenging nature of providing data management solutions to our enterprise client base at an overall cost point that
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Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i

Storage / SAN Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_san_guide.pdf Last Updated: November 12, 2008 What’s New Changes since the last edition of this guide include:
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