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Do we need a dedicated Storage zone?

Posted by Steve Chambers Dec 13, 2008 1:17:42 AM

Storage topics are popular! If you check the topics in this Management zone, and of course the ones in the Availability zone, then storage topics are very common.

 

In this Management zone, Jeremy Waldrop has just added a new document on Integrating CLARiiON iSCSI with ESX with some great screenshots. This complements the other papers from Cormac Hogan at VMware with other examples of storage integrations.

 

Over in Availability we have the excellent VCB integration documents for Chris Skinner... Network and Storage are two fundamentals of virtualization and I'm loath to create their own zones because they are a common part of all the other zones... but on the other hand, maybe it makes more sense to the community to have their own zones?

 

What do you think? Start a new discussion thread if you have a view either way...

Steve



Dec 15, 2008 4:50 AM
Click to view Jeremy Waldrop's profile Jeremy Waldrop

Steve, I think there should be two separate zones for Network and Storage. When we design a virtual infrastructure for our clients the network and storage pieces take the most time and are the most important. Another thought is to have VM backups as a separate zone.

Dec 15, 2008 11:14 AM
Click to view Steve Chambers's profile Steve Chambers in response to: Jeremy Waldrop

Thanks for the feedback, Jeremy. I'll make sure the Community Manager knows this, and we should run a poll - I'll set it up...

Dec 17, 2008 11:35 AM
Click to view Steve Chambers's profile Steve Chambers in response to: Jeremy Waldrop

Jeremy, can you vote in the poll on the front page,? Ta!

Dec 17, 2008 11:39 AM
Click to view Jeremy Waldrop's profile Jeremy Waldrop in response to: Steve Chambers

done

Dec 31, 2008 6:21 AM
Click to view Charles Boyd's profile Charles Boyd in response to: Jeremy Waldrop

I agree with Jeremy and second his suggestions !! Kepp up the great work !!

 

Chuck