Plain Virtualization

The discussion on moving to an alternative hypervisor due to Broadcom acquisition of VMware has been a popular topic mainly due to the cost increase of the licenses required to run VMware software. But let's be honest, there are applications that works only on VMware due to certification or qualification. There are still a bulk of workloads that doesn't requires and this is where an alternative is helpful to drive the cost down. Even if you have managed to assess and decided on the alternative choice (whatever that is), there are just one important cost that many has overlook and it is the most important. That is migration cost from VMware data format to your alternative data format. There many paid software for such requirements which are not free and generally price per VM or by the amount of data capacity. They are reliable but purchasing the additional cost for a one time use might not be as viable, not to mention the professional service cost needed on top of that. This ta...

Why NetApp is bold enough to say they are the Most Secure Storage on the planet second to none. Here I am going to break it down what NetApp proof itself on: NetApp has pledge it self to CISA Secure by Design Commitment. And you can read here  what that is about also what the pledge entails. NetApp also comply to NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 by folloing the stringent guidelines entail here . NetApp has comly to a list security certifications as details here . To list a few, DoDIN APL, FIPS 140, Common Criteria, etc. Lastly, NetApp is validated by CISA for CSfC to store secret and top-secret National Security Systems (NSS) data. That is all what NetApp has proof. Why not let a third party do validated. NetApp engaged SE Labs to test out its built in Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) with AI against 15 ransomware family, and has achieve a AAA rating. The only storage on the planet so far to get this rating. It proof that ARP was able to detect all 100% accuracy of the atta...

In the view of the new feature in vSphere 5 on VAAI, the reclaim of space from thin provision datastore whereby a file is deleted from datastore or when a storage vmotion is performed or even a snapshot consolidation.  Performance issue may arise and create error when the above are performed. Details can be found in this blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/09/vaai-thin-provisioning-block-reclaimunmap-issue.html Knowledge base: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007427