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Nimble Blog: VSS 101 and Design Considerations in VMware environment (Part II)
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
This is from Wen, @Wensteryu, Nimble Storage Technology Evangelist.
Nimble engineers(Jay Wang, Anagha Barve, Sathya Bhat, Scott Moreland) and tech marketing strike again with part II of VSS. Now that you have basic understanding of how VSS framework and VMware quiesced snapshot integration work (if you haven’t read the first post, click here). Now let’s jump into the subject of design considerations – for those of you that read my blog regularly, you know this is my favorite subject – highlighting areas of that you should watch out for, when designing your virtualization infrastructure. Here we go, for each disk attachment method available in ESX environment….
Nimble Blog: VSS 101 and Design Considerations in VMware environment (Part I)
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
This is from Wen, @Wensteryu, Nimble Storage Technology Evangelist.
We have gotten lots of customer inquiries in learning more about VMDK vs. RDM vs. in-guest attached iSCSI storage, and its implication on data protection with Microsoft VSS framework/integration. Instead of telling you what to do directly, I decided to work with our engineering gurus (Jay Wang, Anagha Barve, Sathya Bhat and Scott Moreland) who think about this day in and day out, to do a joint two part post on how VSS works, follow by design considerations….
Youtube: VMware Data Protection with Microsoft VSS
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
Nimble Storage Technologist Wen Yu and VMware Engineer Alton Yu provide a technical look at backup and recovery for VMware environments using Microsoft VSS.
Youtube: Nimble Storage SmartStack for VDI with Cisco and VMware
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
Technical marketing engineer Michael McLaughlin describes the VDI reference architecture recently announced by Cisco, VMware, and Nimble Storage that supports 1,000 virtual desktops with only 3U of storage. The architecture uses Cisco UCS blade servers, VMware View, and VMware vSphere to provide a tested and preconfigured architecture for organizations looking to reduce their risk when deploying a VDI solution.
Youtube: Nimble Storage Case Study: City of Hot Springs and Garland County
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
Jeff Winter, IS Director for the City of Hot Springs and Garland County, describes how his team virtualized their critical applications and established a replicated data protection scheme using Nimble Storage.
Youtube: Nimble Storage Design for VMware vSphere 5.0 with Mostafa Khalil
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
This on-demand webinar features special guest Mostafa Khalil, senior engineer at VMware and author of the book “Storage Implementation in vSphere 5.0.”
Mr. Khalil provides a highly-technical presentation, derived from his book. Questions are answered realtime during the presentation.
Wen Yu, Senior technical marketing engineer at Nimble Storage, provides a brief live demo at the end of the presentation, showing command line interaction with vSphere and Nimble arrays.
Webinar Jan 31: Nimble Storage: VMware Data Protection with Veeam
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on January 21, 2013
Nimble Storage and Veeam have partnered to combine the performance of SSDs, the capacity of traditional HDDs, and the efficiency of snapshot-based data protection, together in one real-world-proven solution for virtualized environments.
In this live webinar, the IT experts from Veeam and Nimble Storage will show you how this joint solution delivers:
- Flash-optimized hybrid storage performance- Fast backup and recovery
- Capacity efficiency with backup compression and deduplication
- WAN-efficient replication for offsite DR
And all at dramatically lower cost than existing solutions.
Register now for your chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card during the presentation.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
11:00 AM Pacific Time
2:00 PM Eastern Time
6:00 PM Central European Time
Youtube: Nimble Storage Integration with VMware SRM
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on October 31, 2012
This is from Wen, @Wensteryu, Nimble Storage Technology Evangelist.
In this recording of a live webinar presented October 23, 2012, Wen describes best practices for protecting the datacenter with VMware SRM and Nimble Storage, and also provides a live demonstration of :
- SRA Discovery
- DR Test
- DR Failover
- Reprotect
Wen includes some useful tools for customers, including a deployment checklist, and several “gotchas” that will save you time when deploying VMware SRM with Nimble Storage.
More here….
http://goo.gl/LJDaq
Youtube: Cisco, Nimble Storage, and VMware Reference Architecture for 1,000 Seat VDI Deployment
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on October 19, 2012
Mike McLaughlin, Nimble Storage Technical Marketing, whiteboards the joint Cisco UCS, Nimble Storage CS-Series and VMware View solution for a 1,000 seat virtual desktop deployment.
More here….
http://goo.gl/v6pqK
Youtube: Cisco and Nimble Storage Discuss Joint Reference Architecture for VMware View VDI
Posted by Marc Malotke in Uncategorized on October 19, 2012
Radhika Krishnan, Nimble Storage Head of Solutions and Alliances, talks with Ashok Rajagopalan, Cisco Senior Product Manager Data Center Group, about the challenges of deploying VDI and the benefit of deploying a reference architecture using Cisco UCS server platform, Nimble Storage CS-Series arrays, and VMware View.
More here….
http://goo.gl/PC3Hj
