OpenStack was created to provide a complete, open source cloud operating system. In addition to being community driven, OpenStack aims to be simple. By providing an easy to use dashboard and user interface (in addition to command line tools and RESTful APIs), OpenStack empowers the end users to use the cloud resources as they see …
NetApp
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …
When I was still on the customer side, in 2011, I had the pleasure of working with FlexPod for the first time. It wasn’t in a cool rack that I could pose in front of, it was a NetApp FAS2040, Nexus 5ks, and Cisco UCS Servers and their Fabric Interconnects (which were named Batman and …
I’ve always felt like storage was one of the fundamental building blocks of virtualization. The VMware environment I worked with sucked up the most storage out of any other group or application, even with storage efficiencies like deduplication in place. When there was something wrong with the environment’s storage, it quickly impacted everything running on …
What are IOPS anyway? Simply put, they are Input/Output Operations Per Second, and they are meaningless. (How many IOPS do you think I can get this thing up to, anyway?) Wait, what? How could I possibly be calling IOPS meaningless? I’m a STORAGE person! How could I say this? I think that maybe it was …
I decided it would be a great idea to update my team’s lab to vSphere 5.5 for a couple of reasons. First, we were on 5.0, so we couldn’t run Windows 2012, and secondly, I need to get back to the hands on for VCAP practice. I haven’t been a VMware “person” in about two …