Just over three months after releasing Update 2 for ESX 3.5, VMware has released Update 3. That last Update brought major storage changes like VSS support, hot VMFS extension, Storage VMotion across Fibre Channel and iSCSI, and support for 10 Gb Ethernet and 8 Gb FC support. For more information on Update 2, see my article, Storage Fixes in VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update … [Read more...] about Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 3
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Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)
Beth Pariseau over at SearchStorage.com has another great interview, this time with "Mr. SCSI", Larry Boucher of Alacritech. Despite being early to market with TCP offload engine (TOE) Ethernet NICs, and iSCSI HBAs in particular, the company has been less successful than many would have expected. This is probably because most folks just didn't use 'em - iSCSI works fine with … [Read more...] about Larry Boucher: The Future Is Mine! (in 2009…)