Lumenate and XtremIO™ for Extreme VDI

Extreme VDI through Lumenate

Unpredictable workloads and changing demands on storage infrastructures are the greatest challenges to a successful implementation of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). EMC’s XtremIO, the industry’s first and only all-flash array, supports workloads that need predictable and consistent low latency across datasets that frequently change—a textbook solution for the challenges facing VDI implementation.

Lumenate and XtremIO™ for Extreme VDI

The Lumenate Perspective on VMworld 2013

The world of IT that we know has always been in a constant state of change. These changes are driven by customer’s needs, technology innovations and good old fashioned progress. There are some in the industry who think we are changing even faster as IT matures. Others say we have always been changing at the same rate but perception is in the eye of the beholder. Well at VMworld this year we got a glimpse of how the IT industry will be changing over the next few years.

The Lumenate Perspective on VMworld 2013

VMworld 2013 – VSANs

One of the most interesting things to come out at VMworld 2013 is VMware VSANs. At a high level VSANs aggregate the local storage either internal or Direct Attached to ESX servers and creates a VSAN Datastore. The VSAN datastore supports all of the capabilities of traditional external storage attached to ESX Clusters. To be clear this isn’t simply a virtual storage appliance, this is integrated at the Hypervisor level. VMware pointed to the numerous advantages of being able to manage storage that is integrated directly into the solution. It is inherently VM aware and more than that they have the ability to understand workloads in real time and make adjustments based on the SLAs you define.

VMworld 2013 – VSANs

Thoughts on Integrated Stacks

Over the last couple of years there has been a lot of discussion around moving from the traditional methods of building out infrastructure to utilizing converged stacks. At this point nearly every manufacturer has gotten into the game, positioning their own technologies, setting up independent companies or partnering so that they too can have an offering. Engineered Systems, Integrated Stacks, Converged Systems, Reference Architectures or Validated Designs or whatever name or category they fall under are not identical but they strive to accomplish the same goals.

Thoughts on Integrated Stacks

Musings of a NetApp Insight 2012 Attendee

As has come to be expected, NetApp Insight consisted of 3 days packed with all things NetApp. This year the breakout sessions focused on areas such as Cloud, FlexPod, Big Data and of course Cluster-Mode just to name a few.

Musings of a NetApp Insight 2012 Attendee