http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/09/19/what-vmware-vdc-os-vstorage/ Understanding the accumulation of data Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/09/19/what-vmware-vdc-os-vstorage/comment-page-1/#comment-11640 Symantec’s Thin API: The Plot Thickens - Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:28:29 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=647#comment-11640 [...] Note that SmartMove speeds up migration too, even for thick volumes! When you use a SmartMove-enabled version of Storage Foundation to move a volume, it will only send the blocks that have changed over the wire. This reminds me a little of VMware’s new I/O deduplication capability talked about at VMworld, but it’s focused only on migrations, not other I/O situations. For more on this topic, see my recent post on VMware vStorage [...] [...] Note that SmartMove speeds up migration too, even for thick volumes! When you use a SmartMove-enabled version of Storage Foundation to move a volume, it will only send the blocks that have changed over the wire. This reminds me a little of VMware’s new I/O deduplication capability talked about at VMworld, but it’s focused only on migrations, not other I/O situations. For more on this topic, see my recent post on VMware vStorage [...]

]]> http://blog.fosketts.net/2008/09/19/what-vmware-vdc-os-vstorage/comment-page-1/#comment-10727 Virtualization Short Take - VMworld 2008 Edition - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:24:54 +0000 http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=647#comment-10727 [...] this myself soon, but for now I’ll just comment on what others are saying. Stephen Foskett comments that “VDC-OS has legs!”, meaning that this vision has some substance behind it; I [...] [...] this myself soon, but for now I’ll just comment on what others are saying. Stephen Foskett comments that “VDC-OS has legs!”, meaning that this vision has some substance behind it; I [...]

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