Storage Links
General
Everything you need to know about vSphere and data storage (Storage Magazine)
10 tips for managing storage for virtual servers and virtual desktops (Storage Magazine)
What’s New in VMware vSphere 4.1 - Storage (VMware)
Storage IO Control Technical Overview & Considerations for Deployment (VMware)
vSphere Storage: Features and Enhancements (Professional VMware)
Storage Basics - Part I: An Introduction (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part II: IOPS (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part III: RAID (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part IV: Interface (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part V: Controllers, Cache and Coalescing (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part VI: Storage Workload Characterization (VM Today)
Storage Basics - Part VII: Storage Alignment (VM Today)
vSphere and 2TB LUNs - changes from VI3.x (Virtual Geek)
A look at the ESX I/O stack (NetApp)
vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices (Netapp)
Storage Protocol Choices & Storage Best Practices for vSphere (EMC)
Improve Storage Efficiency and Management with VMware vSphere 4 (VMware)
What Is New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage (VMware)
VMware vSphere 4: Exchange Server on NFS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel (VMware)
Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage (Virtual Storage Guy)
vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN (Virtual Storage Guy)
A look at the ESX I/O stack (NetApp)
Storage Oversubscription Technologies (Xtravirt)
The Debate-Why NFS vs Block Access for OS/Applications (vTexan)
Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
“FCoE vs. iSCSI - Making the Choice” from Interop Las Vegas 2011 (Stephen Foskett)
How FCoE and iSCSI Fit into Your Storage Strategy (NetApp Tech OnTap)
Fibre Channel over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction (Cisco)
Solid-State Disks (SSDs)
Making the case for solid-state storage (Storage Magazine)
vStorage APIs
VAAI
VAAI sweetness (Yellow Bricks)
vStorage APIs for Array Integration aka VAAI (Yellow Bricks)
VMware VAAI pros and cons and the hidden fourth primitive (SearchVMware.com)
vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) (VMTN)
vSphere 4.1 - What do the “vStorage APIs for Array Integration” mean to you? (Virtual Geek)
vSphere 4.1 and vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) (Virtual Storage Guy)
VMware vSphere VAAI Demo with NetApp (Virtual Storage Guy)
VAAI and Deployment - a Practical Example (NTPro.nl)
Exploring the performance benefits of VAAI (The Lower Case w)
VMware vSphere 4.1 vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) understanding (GeekSilver)
vStorage APIs for Array Integration FAQ (VMware KB)
3PAR and VMware go back to Storage’s Roots to Enhance the Future of Virtualized Data Centers (DCIG)
Using VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration with EMC Symmetrix VMAX (EMC)
Chad’s Choice - vStorage API for Array Integration: What is it; What to expect. (EMC Webcast)
VMware VAAI Storage Array Support in Plain English (Stephen Foskett)
VAMP
VMware PSP and SATP in Plain English (Stephen Foskett)
Configure VMware ESX(i) Round Robin on EMC Storage (boche.net)
What’s that ALUA exactly? (Yellow Bricks)
Pluggable Storage Architecture, exploring the next version of ESX/vCenter (Yellow Bricks)
A couple important (ALUA and SRM) notes (Virtual Geek)
Understanding more about NMP RR and iooperationslimit=1 (Virtual Geek)
vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN (Virtual Storage Guy)
VMware PSA, MPP, NMP, PSP, MRU, … And Tutti Quanti! (DeinosCloud)
Best practices for HP EVA, vSphere 4 and Round Robin multi-pathing (Ivobeerens.nl)
vSphere Round Robin MultiPathing (Phil the Virtualizer)
Multipathing policies in ESX 4.x (VMware KB)
iSCSI
A “Multivendor Post” on using iSCSI with VMware vSphere (Virtual Geek)
A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual iSCSI customers using VMware (Virtual Geek)
Using iSCSI storage with vSphere (Storage Magazine)
Configuring VMware vSphere Software iSCSI with Dell Equallogic PS Series Storage (Equallogic)
How to Configure Openfiler iSCSI Storage for VMware ESX 4 (Xtravirt)
Putting your storage to the test - Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega IX4-200D (Gabe’s Virtual World)
How-to connect ESX4, vSphere to Openfiler iSCSI NAS (Vladan.fr)
EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Exchange 2007 using vSphere 4.0 and iSCSI (EMC)
How to setup basic software iSCSI for VMware vSphere (video)
iSCSI Design Considerations and Deployment Guide (VMware)
Converged Storage Infrastructure for VMware vSphere 4.1 (Broadcom)
NFS
A “Multivendor Post” to help our mutual NFS customers using VMware (Virtual Geek)
Using NAS for virtual machines (Storage Magazine)
Putting your storage to the test Part 2 NFS on Iomega IX4-200D (Gabe’s Virtual World)
Best Practices for Running vSphere on NFS Storage (VMware)
Republished: Dispelling Some VMware over NFS Myths (Scott Lowe)
Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VM/ETC)
SAN/Fiber Channel
SAN System Design and Deployment Guide (VMware)
Configuring and Troubleshooting N-Port ID Virtualization (VMware)
Thin Provisioning
Dynamic Storage Provisioning (VMware)
VMware ESX 4 Reclaiming Thin Provisioned disk Unused Space (Virtualization Team)
Performance
vStorage: Troubleshooting Performance (Professional VMware)
Calculate IOPS in a storage array (Tech Republic)
IOPs? (Yellow Bricks)
Storage System Performance Analysis with Iometer (VMware)
Benchmarking Storage for VMware (Peacon)
Performance Troubleshooting VMware vSphere - Storage (Virtual Insanity)
NetApp TR-3808 - VMware vSphere and ESX 3.5 Multiprotocol Performance Comparison Using FC, iSCSI, and NFS (NetApp)
VMTN Storage Performance Thread and the EMC Celerra NS-120 (Virtualization Evangelist)
Comparing the I/O Performance of 2 or more Virtual Machines SSD, SATA & IOmeter (Vinf.net)
Poor performance and high disk latency with some storage configurations (VMware KB)
pvSCSI
More Bang for Your Buck with PVSCSI (Part 1) (Virtual Insanity)
More Bang for your Buck with PVSCSI (Part 2) (Virtual Insanity)
Boot from Paravirtualized SCSI Adapter (Xtravirt)
Configuring disks to use VMware Paravirtual SCSI (PVSCSI) adapters (VMware KB)
VDI
Managing storage for virtual desktops (Storage Magazine)
VDI and Storage: Deep Impact (Virtuall.eu)
VDI User Sizing Example (EMC)
Vendor Specific
HP
Configuration best practices for HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family and VMware vSphere 4 (HP)
