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Storage Efficiency • WAFL Internals Dedupe, Compress, Compact: How WAFL Squeezes Every Byte Out of Capacity Flash Flash is no longer the exotic performance tier — it’s becoming the default. Which makes the question of how efficiently you use every terabyte of it more important than ever. 🕑 8 min read A personal note: I’m a presales manager at NetApp, but this blog is my own space for sharing what I find genuinely interesting in storage engineering. The views below are mine alone, not an official NetApp position, and not a sales pitch — just one practitioner nerding out on a filesystem. WAFL Deduplication Compression Compaction TSSE AFF/ASA C-Series QLC Flash Every gigabyte of flash you buy today costs more than the equivalent gigabyte of spinning disk, and that gap doesn’t look like it’s c...

Recently did a presentation on VMware Mirage to one of my customer who have attended the vForum 2012 and like to explore.  Some questions were posted and like to share some of the ways you can compliment or work with your existing patch management which you might currently have in your environment. You can find out more on VMware Mirage here . Download a free trial here . Question 1: SCCM in place for patching endpoints.  Mirage can help in two use cases: Use Mirage to build the reference machine for base layer and deploy to all end points.  SCCM to push all other apps and patches. Use Mirage to build reference machine for base layer and deploy to all end points as standard.  Use SCCM to only patch the reference machine.  Use Mirage to create different layers for different layers required. Now which to choose?  I would recommend option 2.  Here is why.  Using SCCM to patch the reference image and using Mirage to capture helps manag...