Attending the Dell Tech Summit EMEA

As you read this I’m preparing to get on my way to the DELL Tech Summit in Lisbon, Portugal for a few days. I’ll be discussing the needs we have from them as customers (and their competition actually for that … Continue reading

Shared Nothing Live Migration White Board Time – Scenario I

The Problem Let’s say you are very happy with your SAN. You just love the snapshots, the thin provisioning, deduplication, automatic storage tiering, replication, ODX and the SMI-S support. Live is good! But you have one annoying issue. For example; … Continue reading

Hyper-V Shared Nothing Live Migration In Windows Server 2012– VM Mobility Rules

I see and hear some people shrug at the idea of Shared Nothing Live Migration, dismissing it as marginally useful. Some do state they’ll have it as well but that it’s not that valuable. Well I disagree totally. A lot … Continue reading

Windows Server 2012 Supports Data Center Bridging (DCB)

Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a collection of standards-based end-to-end networking technologies that allow Ethernet to act as the unified fabric for multiple types of traffic in the data center. You cannot put a bunch of traffic types / protocols … Continue reading