Are you tired of the endless queue of trouble tickets that clog up your inbox? Do you want to take your virtual environment to the next level? If you’re ready to start leading the charge to successful digital transformation, then it’s time for you to learn what NetApp has been doing. At VMworld 2018, NetApp […]
Today, an enterprise data center can be one of the most complicated business environments, where hundreds, even thousands of servers must be monitored and maintained. Given that technology evolves and advances every day, your organization is probably looking to simplify your data center’s infrastructure. Enter HCI. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are getting attention—and […]
The Evolution of VDI For the past decade, as organizations have been rethinking their approach to delivering desktops to end users, many have turned to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. An initial driver to VDI was the focus on reducing the per-desktop cost. Along with lower cost, IT teams also had to make sure […]
According to a recent study by 451 Research, the adoption of application containers will grow by 40% annually through 2020. Containers are facilitating rapid and agile development like never before. But questions still persist on container basics, namely: How do they differ from virtual machines? If containers are, by their nature, transitory and disposable, how can […]
The latest update to the NetApp® Virtual Storage Console is now available for NetApp ONTAP® customers to download for their VMware environments. A handful of new features give the VM administrator increased visibility and additional management controls. The key features of the release include Maximum QoS Support, a dashboard view for Virtual Volumes (VVols) based […]
You may wonder what NetApp is up to with our latest efforts with VMware and Amazon Web Services. Most of Netapp’s customers are well aware of our long partnership with VMware. We have many mutual customers who are using NetApp® storage behind their on-premises VMware environments. But we also know that our customers are looking […]
It may not seem like a lot of work to configure a virtual machine and provision or data clone the storage. But what if you have 50 VMs? 100? When you’re working at scale, you need tools that help you speedily perform repetitive actions. You can also use those tools to create a self-service environment so […]
As a VMware administrator, you have many jobs, but your main task is to help your organization make the most of its data. In working toward that goal, you have to optimize efficiency and protect data, which often means dealing with disparate systems. But things just got easier. NetApp® Virtual Storage Console (VSC) for VMware vSphere […]
* The NetApp booth is #421, located not far from the center island on the show floor. Read on for a schedule of our sessions and panels.* If you’re a VMware user and have not yet been familiarized with NetApp’s Data Fabric vision, VMworld 2017 is your perfect chance to get acquainted with how […]
NetApp® SolidFire® technology is known as the market-leading scale-out, shared-nothing, block storage all-flash array. Its innovative quality-of-service capabilities can guarantee volume and application performance on a granular level (see the previous blog about 3-Dimensional QoS). Most NetApp SolidFire Element® OS customers are taking advantage of the operating system to support their VMware environments, but how […]
SolidFire has just released the latest version of the vCenter Plug-in with support for vSphere 6. With this release of the plug-in (version 2.5), there are a number of enhancements to better integrate with vSphere that I’ll address in this post. Customers migrating to vSphere 6 will have added support for vSphere 6, with backward […]
Next week, VMware users, administrators, and managers will join 25,000 of their closest friends and peers in San Francisco at VMworld 2015. In addition to learning more about virtualization, these attendees want to improve the storage layer of their software-defined data center (SDDC). SolidFire views the future of the VMware ecosystem and how you can […]
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