As we get very close to the XtremIO X2 GA, I wanted to compare some important metrics, XCOPY performance and data reduction (DRR) between the two platforms. Lets start with DRR, that’s a straight forward one to compare, I took a windows 10 VM and cloned it to […]
Hi VMware have just released the first major update to vSphere 6.5, normally, I don’t blog on these but this update is so big and it fixes some really annoying bugs I saw using the GA version of vSphere 6.5..thankfully, we worked hard with their support to overcome […]
Hi, We have just released an updated version of the ESA plugin for VMware vRealize Operation, new to this release is the support for vROPS 6.6, new XtremIO metrics etc As always, you can download the latest version from https://support.emc.com/search/?text=esa%204.3&facetResource=DOWN The UI of vROPS 6.6 is different and […]
Along with the release of (the Classic) RP 5.1 release which you can read about here https://xtremio.me/2017/07/06/recoverpoint-5-1-is-here-a-must-upgrade/ We have also just released RP4VMs 5.1, to me, this if where scale and simplicity made their way into the product, here are some of the new features / changes Deployer […]
Hi We have just released RP 5.1 (not to be mistaken with 5.0 SP1 that was released some time ago), there are many enhancements in this release, I will focus on the XtremIO one, in a nutshell, we AUTOMATE everything! The XtremIO array is zoned to the RPAs […]
We have just GA’d Appsync 3.5 which is a big and important release across the board (and across our portfolio), AppSync 3.5 will also be the minimum required release to support XtremIO X2 once it’s out, downloading Appsync can be done from https://support.emc.com/search/?text=appsync%203.5 Key Features in this release: […]
Hi, I had the pleasure to be interviewed by Sam about XtremIO X2 @ The Source Podcast is hosted by Sam Marraccini (@SamMarraccini) http://thesource.libsyn.com/89-introducing-xtremio-x2?tdest_id=300181
ESG (The Enterprise Strategy Group) have just released a new validation report for Dell EMC XtremIO and ProtectPoint This report documents hands-on testing and validation of Dell EMC ProtectPoint technology for XtremIO with Dell EMC Data Domain for protection storage. The report highlights data protection for Oracle Databases, […]
If you attended the OpenStack Summit in Boston a couple of weeks ago you must have seen the enthusiasm all around. More and more organizations are adopting the open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service software as a cloud solution for their data centers and using it to utilize their resources and […]
How to achieve the desired RPO with replication with minimum cost Replicating data has always been a copying challenge in terms of achieving the required protection for the application. This challenge becomes even more severe when using and AFA with high change rate workloads. The issue is that […]
