Session STO2496 with Rawlingson Rivera (VMware), Chad Sakac (EMC), and Vaughn Stewart (Pure Storage) Simplicity is the key to success: Use large datastores Limit use of RDMs Use datastore clusters Use array automated tiering storage Avoid jumbo frames for iSCSI and NFS KISS gets you out of jail a lot...
Twitter: #STO5545, Eric Siebert (HP) This was the best session of the day, and highly informative. Eric Siebert is a fast talker, and his slides were packed to the gills with details (and I didn't even capture 25% of the content). This is the first session that I grabbed a...
Twitter: #STO4907. Aboubacar Diare (HP), Abid Saeed (VMware) This session discussed how storage reclamation for block works in vSphere 5.0 thought vSphere 5.5. vSphere 5.5 has major improvements in how freed storage space is reclaimed. While not totally automated, it's much more efficient and easier to kick off the reclamation...