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Jingyi1

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April 15th, 2012 19:00

VMware vSphere 4.1 Integration Scorecard: EMC vs. IBM, any new version?

Hi all,

I found a very useful Competition Analysis on storage supports VMware. http://one.emc.com/clearspace/docs/DOC-14967  Unfortunately, It's a little outdated. This document mentioned "This scorecard focuses on vSphere 4.1. Seperate scorecards will be created for vSphere 5 later in 2011.**"  I am wondering if any of you happen to have the updated scorecard and can share with us. Thanks in advance.

kangw2

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April 15th, 2012 20:00

It is a little fresh for us, we will do some research and get back to you.

LouisLu

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April 15th, 2012 20:00

Hi, Both,

Maybe we need some time to wait for complete vSphere 5 scoreboard. But we had some referecne for new features on vSphere 5 integration. Chad's blog always give an outstanding presentation on the stuffs. Please go to link. List some brief also.

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So, what’s new?

  • in vSphere 5, not only is vSphere/VMFS “thin aware”, but it actively exploits and leverage thin provisioning at the array level for both Block and NAS storage models.  
  • Wherever possible, “more standard” approaches have been used – with the goal of not needing any vendor plugins for block storage models.
  • There is now support for NAS hardware assists which not only help with Thin Provisioning, but can leverage array functions (like file-level snapshots/versions).

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Lu

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