Starting today EMC is making available VMware Virtual Volumes (VVol) through Direct Availability (DA). The basic difference between a DA release and a General Availability (GA) release is that in order to use VVols with VMAX3 you will need to work through your EMC Sales team to acquire the necessary software to run VVols. It... Continue Reading →
SRDF/Metro and VMware Metro Storage Cluster
It's been a while since my last post - I've been busy with Virtual Volume (VVol) testing and writing a new SRDF/Metro paper which coincidentally (or perhaps obviously) is the subject of this post. The paper covers using SRDF/Metro with VMware Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) and was just posted. You can find it here: WP... Continue Reading →
Dell PowerFlex and PowerMax with VMware 