The next version of ESX has a totally different architecture for storage. The new architecture is called “Pluggable Storage Architecture”. For my own understanding I wanted to write down how this actually works and what all the different abbreviations/acronyms mean: PSA = Pluggable Storage Architecture NMP = Native Multipathing MPP = Multipathing Plugin PSP = Path Selection Plugin SATP = [...]

I’m really looking forward to the podcast tonight. We’ve got Chad Sakac from EMC joining in to elaborate on topics like: What VMware, EMC and Cisco are doing together around the Next Generation Datacenter What’s coming in vStorage Reference Architectures for Tier 1 applications like Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint What we’re seeing around Disaster Recovery for VMware Most of you [...]

VMware just dropped the news that the future version of VCB will not be an installable anymore. VCB will be an API. This will save you that additional (proxy) host that it will normally cost you. This probably also means that software vendors can take the full advantage of their own unique abilities like deduplication, direct restore into a VM… [...]