TA2784

Joint VMware and NetApp Best Practices for Running VI3 on IP Based Storage

As many VMware customers are looking to deploy virtual machines on Network Attached Storage and iSCSI, the common questions that come up are, what are the best practices and deployment considerations for doing this. This session will review the basic requirements and considerations of using NFS datastores and iSCSI. We will then share some best practices and deployment considerations that have come up in customer deployments of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. There will also be some discussion of best practices for optimal performance and high availability.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Paul Manning( VMware,Inc. ), Larry Touchette( NetApp ), Peter Learmonth( NetApp )

Paul Manning, a Storage Architect on the VMware Technical Marketing team, has many years of experience in both the storage and database industry. Paul has architected many solutions for high performance and availability applications. His current focus is documenting best practices for deployment of virtualization solutions on various storage environments.

Peter is a technical Marketing Engineer focused on Virtualization Solutions.

Larry Touchette is a co-author of the NetApp VMware Site Recovery Manager White Paper. He has over 8 years experience with NetApp technologies. Previously a consultant with NetApp Professional Services, Larry is a Technical Marketing Engineer focused on server virtualization.