Storage Nitty-Gritty 1 of 5 – Disk and RAID

On my trip I have been through several pre-sales discussions on storage. Therefore I’m taking this opportunities to write up a series of postings deep diving into storage technologies. In this first section, we lay out the foundation of storage technology, from physical device to RAID, focusing on the concepts. Some contents are excerpts from … Read moreStorage Nitty-Gritty 1 of 5 – Disk and RAID

Overview of vSphere

This post is a summary of VMware’s white paper Introduction to VMware vSphere. ESXi is the hypervisor (virtualization layer) on bare metal servers that abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines. It was previously known as ESX and VMware discontinued ESX at version 4.1 so only ESXi is provided at and … Read moreOverview of vSphere