by Rawlinson | Nov 20, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
Recently I’ve been writing and publishing a series of articles on the vSphere Storage Appliance on the VMware Storage blog. There is quite of bit of interest on this solution now that it supports centralize and de-centralized management of multiple VSA Clusters....
by Rawlinson | Nov 5, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
I recently posted an article about Architecting Storage Offering for vCloud Director 5.1. In the article I discussed new architecture considerations for the latest version of vCloud Director. The middle of the article focuses around the use of Storage Profiles among...
by Rawlinson | Oct 18, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff!, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
Prior to the release of the vCloud Suite and vCloud Director 5.1, the discussions for architecting cloud as it relates to vCloud Director and storage offerings were based around tiered models focused on performance and capacity. The access to tiered offerings was...