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EMC XtremIO, The Story Behind The Story
Hi, with the launch of the EMC XtremIO array, i wanted to share with you some stories around the idea of the product itself, beforehand, if you want to know more about the inside of the product, you...
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Running EMC ScaleIO In A Nested vSphere Environment – Part 1
EMC ScaleIO is awesome, here’s how you can run a full functional demo environment on your home pc / laptop. im using 16GB of RAM in my laptop and I have a 512gb SSD drive, all the network in this...
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Running EMC ScaleIO In A Nested vSphere Environment–Part 2
Hi, the first post includes the basic setup for 3 nested ESXi Hosts, in my laptop I only have 16GB of ram so that won’t work, so this post will describe the installation on only two ESX hosts, how can...
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XtremIO’s In-Memory Metadata Architecture – Fact and Fiction
During our launch last week we discussed the amazing benefits of XtremIO’s In-Memory Metadata architecture. Some have seen fit to FUD this approach as risky – what happens to valuable metadata if a...
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Garbage Collection & XtremIO – Fact and Fiction
One of the eye opening claims we made during our launch on November 14th was that the XtremIO array doesn’t have any system-level garbage collection processes. In the coverage and chatter that...
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A Tale of Two Architectures — Engineering for the 99.999% versus the 0.001%
Today’s enterprise storage arrays follow one of five different architectural approaches to clustering their controllers for high availability. We’ve represented them here in order of increasing...
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Through the Looking Glass
“I don’t understand . . .’ ” said Alice. “It’s dreadfully confusing!”“That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly: “it always makes one a little giddy at first- ”“Living backwards!”...
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Proud To Be Selected As EMC ELECT 2014
Hi, I’m so proud and humbled to be selected as an EMC ELECT for 2014, i always thought that sharing information is fun and useful for everyone and i’m happy to get a recognition for it. coincidentally...
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Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) 5.6.2 Is Out
Hi, we have just released VSI 5.6.2, i highly recommend this release if you are using it to register VM’s with XenDesktop.. as always, download it from support.emc.com
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XtremIO 2.2 Service Pack 3 Is Out!
Hi, If you thought 2013 was big for EMC and XtremIO, you have seen nothing yet, 2014 is going to be much much bigger, a big part of the launching theme was around to “getting the architecture right!”,...
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EMC World 2014 Is Coming ! Here’s the XtremIO Sessions
Hi, EMC World 2014 is coming soon, you can click on the banner above to register for it, this year is going to be VERY interesting as any other year but from our perspective (the emerging technology...
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VPLEX / VE Is Here
Funny, one of the most anticipated products (IMHO) just pop out, you can bet you will hear more and more about it in the next months to come, VPLEX / VE was just a part of one of the biggest (if not...
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The Case For SPARSE_SE
Hi, A topic I got involved with lately is the ability to run an in guest space reclamation automatically, why is that so important you may ask, well, let’s assume, you are after a storage array, any...
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One Year Later, My EMC World Flashy Perspective
Hi, only 1 year has passed since i wrote this post ( http://itzikr.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/reflections-on-emc-world-2013-my-flashy-prespective/ ) and it seems like a lifetime, so much as changed for...
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XtremIO – Redefining Snapshots
A guest post by Tamir Segal, Senior PM Snapshots is a technology that enables creating copies of volumes. XtremIO has developed a snapshot embedment that provides the ability to create space...
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Different Block Sizes ? We got you Covered!
Hi, part of the fun of working with an All Flash Array is educating the customer on how to properly test it, we have released a free / open testing kit that will pre-condition the array for you so your...
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VMworld 2014, The EMC Sessions
Hi, like any year, we will have a strong attendance but I personally feel this year is a bit special for EMC, from SDS to All Flash Arrays (AFA’s), to hybrid clouds, the market is clearly changing, we...
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Revisiting CITRIX Provisioning Services (PVS) On EMC XtremIO
Hi, We have a lot of customers who are using Citrix XenDesktop, many of them are still using PVS so I wanted to revisit PVS 7.1 running on EMC XtremIO and touch some of the best practices around...
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XtremIO 3.0–Why Scale Out matters?
As part of the mega lunch today, we have announced XtremIO 3.0, the interesting about this release for me is that we took was already the number 1 AFA in the market and made it better, better on the...
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XtremIO 3.0–The Starter X-Brick
“Good things comes in small packages” is a common phrase, in many cases, the small package is “good enough” but nobody ever told us something in the line of “ small packages may perform as the big...
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