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Date: Tuesday, April 15th, Microsoft Waltham
Topic: Impacts of Server Virtualization on Shared Storage Environments
Overview: Server virtualization has revolutionized data center management and resource allocation, providing substantial benefits to a wide range of businesses and environments. These efforts result in lower power, floor space and cooling requirements, reduced administration, improved flexibility, and increased utilization rates for critical resources in the data center. However, storage subsystems, a critical enabler for virtualization projects, are often given insufficient consideration. Aggressive consolidation boosts demand for networked storage capacity by 10% to 20% as most of the newly virtualized servers previously used internal storage. Virtualization efforts using traditional shared storage models will often lead to a doubling in SAN connections, increased spindle counts, and increased SAN administration workloads. We will explore best practice design considerations using traditional SANs and new opportunities for efficient virtualized storage using Application-Aware principles.
Speaker: Christopher Hill, Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, Pillar Data Systems
Speaker Bio: Christopher Hill leads the eastern region Systems Engineering team for Pillar Data Systems, an emerging storage vendor offering the industry's only Application-Aware SAN and NAS storage arrays. Christopher has more than fifteen years in the Information Technology field as an executive and solutions architect, working in diverse environments. He has extensive experience designing and deploying virtualized environments utilizing VMWare's ESX platform, using a range of storage vendors.
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