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….

http://goo.gl/b8fjH

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….

http://goo.gl/Fg0IA