VMware to release ESX 3i for free next week - Yeah, the title pretty much says it all; I guess that’s one way to compete with the price of Hyper-V. Now what were those 3i vs 3.5 limitations?
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More Links 7/22/2008: ESX 3i gets free
22-Jul-08Links 7/22/2008: NetApp and Flash
22-Jul-08Flash Forward - Jay Kidd, CTO of NetApp blogs that “NetApp is in the process of certifying enterprise-grade SSDs that you can use in our existing storage shelves.” No dates or pricing announced yet, of course, but he does make an excellent point about SSDs in storage arrays: “For the next few years, you [...]
Linkage, 7/21/2008
21-Jul-08Storage virtualization doesn’t exist - This needed to be said: “Virtualization.info doesn’t cover the so called storage virtualization because at today this term doesn’t mean anything. Unlike what happens for hardware virtualization, OS virtualization and application virtualization, the storage vendors seems unable to find an agreement on the definition. The term is abused [...]
Link Dump, 7/17/2008
17-Jul-08Elektronkind: OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - A look at upcoming storage technologies in OpenSolaris 2008.11, including ZFS, iSCSI, NDMP, COMSTAR, AVS and SAM-QFS. These products really set OpenSolaris apart from Linux distributions, although I wonder how official this list is, and have some doubts about the status of some [...]
Large Link Dump, 7/16/2008
16-Jul-08VM HA - service console networking, isolation behavior - and other “under the covers stuff” - An overview of how VMware ESX’s High Availability works under the hood - making it much more apparent to me how important file locking is to HA’s functioning. (I’d love to see an overview of how file locking [...]
Catch-up Links, 7/9/2008
10-Jul-08There’s nothing like a long summer weekend followed by an on-site consultant to keep you from updating your blog. But on the bright side, I didn’t have to link to the notebook SSDs are dead - no they’re not kerfluffle.
NetApp finds NAS could mean ‘never accessed storage’ - “According to a USENIX presentation, 90% [...]
Hotlinks, 7/1/2008
01-Jul-08The Hitz report - Robin Harris at StorageMojo on the Sun-NetApp lawsuit:
NetApp’s biggest misperception is that WAFL is somehow central to the success they are enjoying today. That was true about 10 years ago. Guys, your average F500 CIO today could care less about WAFL.
NetApp is growing because they offer a compelling value proposition of [...]
Monday 6/30/2008 Links
30-Jun-08Prediction: Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM. - Lengthy speculation about the future of Xen now that Hyper-V is out. If this turns out to be correct, I think it leaves Sun in a particularly awkward spot, given that [...]
Links from 6/26/2008
26-Jun-08NetApp Litigation - an update: Sun’s take on the NetApp/Sun lawsuit proceedings. “Over the last two months, the PTO has granted the first five of our reexamination requests, finding in all the cases that multiple ‘SNQP’ [substantial new question of patentability] exist for each patent (one request filed in June is still pending). These [...]
README, 6/25/2008
25-Jun-08Daemonic Dispatches: Dissecting SimpleDB BoxUsage - Colin Percival takes a critical look at Amazon’s SimpleDB pricing scheme.