Storage DRS extends the DRS feature set to the storage space. The primary element used by SDRS is a datastore cluster. Introducing the concept of datastore clusters can affect or shift the paradigm of storage management in virtual infrastructures. This article is the start of a short series of articles focusing on the design considerations [...]

If you follow me on twitter you might have seen my tweets I’m in Copenhagen for the last two weeks. Many followers asked me what I was doing there and were speculating it had something to do with VMworld. Even when replying I was visiting a customer, most dismissed these answers. Unfortunately yesterday Rasmus Jensen [...]

During VMworld I noticed a lot of focus of the attendees was on the IO load balancing features of Storage DRS (SDRS), however SDRS is more than only IO load balancing. Both space load balancing feature and initial placement are just as incredible, powerful and as useful as IO load balancing. Actually the term space [...]