What’s the best way to store and manage data in a virtualized environment? For IT administrators and system architects, this question is more than theoretical—it’s a critical decision that impacts ...

Ever found yourself juggling multiple virtual machine (VM) hosts, only to be bogged down by scattered storage, sluggish migrations, or the constant fear of data loss? Managing VM storage can feel like ...

Red Hat announced its lead software-defined storage program, Red Hat Ceph Storage, has a new release: 2.3. This latest version, based on Ceph 10.2 (Jewel), introduces a new Network File System (NFS) ...

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.

For a recent project, I built a completely virtualized vSphere lab. I already had to have a Windows 2008 R2 server in the lab for DNS/AD and I was trying to minimize the number of virtual machines in ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StorPool Storage announced today the official release of the 20th major version of StorPool Storage - the primary storage platform for large-scale cloud ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.

FreeNAS is one one of the most popular software-defined storage products available and in this article Tom Fenton shows you how he installed it on a virtual machine to provide an NFS Share. Network ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to ...

When it comes to Hyper-V and VMware storage, which is better: block- or file-based access? The rate of adoption of server virtualisation has accelerated over recent years, and virtual server workloads ...