VMware also saw that using thin provisioning could be potentially dangerous if a vStorage Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) volume containing many thin-provisioned VMs ran out of space.

In case you didn't notice, I am a big fan of VMware vStorage VMFS. I recently pointed out some notes about slight version differences with vSphere's incremental update to the clustered file system for ...

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration, or VAAI, support on Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform. This makes the platform the first one to offer VAAI support ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), today announced VMware® vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) ...

Virtualization is now an integral part of most data center consolidation and green initiatives at many IT organizations. It's also at the core of technologies such as cloud computing. But while ...

Veeam Software rolled out Version 4.0 of its Veeam Backup & Replication, with support for VMware’s new vSphere 4 vStorage technology. The vStorage API includes support for thin-provisioned disks, the ...

Singapore-based telecommunications service provider SingTel has partnered up with VMware to integrate a part of the virtualization giant’s offerings portfolio, the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, ...

VMware on Tuesday unveiled vSphere, its next-generation virtualization technology on which customers and partners can virtualize data center resources to build cloud computing infrastructures. The new ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...