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Implementing a SAN solution with VMware
When implementing a SAN solution with VMware, one quick tip is to create a datastore for ISO images and vmtemplates. This provides quick access to Windows Installation files and other valuable ISO’s, as well as, makes your vmtemplates available from all of your ESX hosts. If SAN space is an issue, you can always create [...]
Best Practices for Using iSCSI Storage in a VMware Environment
Once iSCSI disks have been configured, they’re ready to be used by your hypervisor environment. The three best practice tips listed here should help you get the maximum performance and reliability out of your iSCSI data stores in a VMware environment. The performance of iSCSI storage is highly dependent on network health and utilization. For [...]
Benefits of the CIFS Share on your SAN Solution
Often is the case that when an organization thinks of virtualization, the first thing that pops to their mind are the three most common benefits of virtualization: Redundancy High Availability Disaster Recovery All three of these topics are most often thought of to be only applicable to the server level, ultimately overlooking one major advantage [...]
NetApp: The Only SAN Solution that De-duplicates Live/Production Data
EMC is introducing a new Flash Caching Solution that will “ …improve application performance by leveraging intelligent software and PCIe flash technology…” But what exactly will this deliver? In my mind, this is just another way EMC will market to their existing client base a product that ultimately delivers results their current product line is supposed [...]
Planning your Storage Environment: IOP Performance
When planning your Storage environment, capacity may not be the most important factor. Performance must remain at the top of your list of requirements, specifically IOPS performance. What good is a state of the art, and in most cases – expensive, storage solution if it runs at a snails’ pace. With increasing bandwidth speeds, [...]
Hard Drive Prices to Remain High Through 2014
Inventories won’t be back to normal untillater this year
Manage your Disaster Recovery Environment with VMware’s vCenter SRM
Disaster Recovery is often over complicated by introducing varying software components to achieve the goal of a simplified and efficient DR plan. Quite often, the simplest and most cost effective answer is already partly installed within the current infrastructure. The majority of virtualized environments consist of a physical hosts running VMware to fulfill their virtualized [...]
Microsoft Windows 8 Storage Spaces
Microsoft has taken aim at the datacenter with their Windows 8 storage scheme, which has been coined as “Storage Spaces.” The good, bad, and the ugly: The Good – Organizations will be able to utilize the storage scheme to manage large storage across multiple disks with various connection types (USB, SAS, and/or SATA). With the [...]
Comm Solutions and the Latest Storage Trends
As we enter into a new year, businesses need to know the storage trends to take into consideration while planning their infrastructure and how Comm Solutions can help make one of these trends a reality. The following link specifies ten trends to take into consideration: http://bit.ly/yRGTFh How can Comm Solutions help you? Comm Solutions offers [...]
Benefits of NetApp Storage in the Education Industry
While Colleges and Universities across the nation are faced with the dramatic storage growths and IT challenges proposed by their students, NetApp provides a solution to transfer their infrastructures to a more flexible and efficient storage foundation. NetApp Education Solutions