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Server virtualization has increased the amount of server to server network traffic, commonly described as east-west traffic. Let’s assume that you have 2 VM’s living on the same host and both VM’s are in different layer 3 networks, in a traditional network traffic flow would be: [Read More]

I haven’t been blogging a lot the last couple of months, I’m still trying to drink from the water-hose having recently started at VMware, and of course customers come before blogs… [Read More]

vSphere Replication is VMware’s hypervisor (as opposed to storage array) asynchronous (minimum 15 minutes) based replication solution that works at the virtual machine (VMDK) level whereas storage array replication usually works at the datastore (VMFS) level. (One of the reasons why vVols will be interesting going forward). [Read More]

I recently joined VMware as an SE, one of the reasons that motivated and influenced my decision to join is a thirst for technology, at VMware you get to work on such a broad and interesting technology stack that anyone is bound to find one or more things that are... [Read More]

Riverbed recently released the latest edition of it’s cloud storage gateway, both upgrading the software and providing new hardware options. [Read More]