Solving Application Server Storage I/O Performance Bottlenecks Webinar

Solving Application Server Storage I/O Performance Bottlenecks Webinar

Performance Bottlenecks Webinar

Solving Application Server Storage I/O Performance Bottlenecks Webinar

The best I/O is the one you do not have to do, the second best is the one with least server I/O and storage overhead along with application performance bottleneck impact.

Fast applications need fast servers, storage, I/O networking hardware, and software. Merely throwing more hardware as a cache at application performance bottlenecks can help. However, throwing more hardware at performance problems can also cost much cash. On the other hand, a little fast memory and storage in the right place, with robust software performance acceleration can have significant application productivity benefits. Fast hardware also needs fast software to help boost application and user productivity.

As application workloads activity increases, by implementing server software, performance acceleration along with additional fast memory and storage including flash, Storage Class Memories (SCM) among other SSD along with NVMe accessed devices, even more, work can be done boosting productivity while reducing cost.

Join me on June 27 at 1 PM Pacific Time (PT) when I host a free webinar (registration required) sponsored by DataCore and produced by Redmond Magazine/1105 Media as we discuss Solving Application Server Storage I/O Performance Bottlenecks including what you can do today.

I will be joined by guest presenters Augie Gonzalez, Director Technical Product Marketing and Tim Warden, Director Engineering Product Management both from DataCore. During the interactive webinar discussions, we invite you to participate with your questions, as we look at issues, challenges, various approaches, and what you can do today to boost different application performance and productivity.

This webinar is for those whose applications have the need for speed including database, VDI, SharePoint, Exchange, AI, ML and other I/O intensive workloads. Topics that we will be discussing in addition to your questions include:

  • Boosting application performance without breaking the bank
  • Improving application productivity and reducing user wait time
  • Gaining insight and awareness into bottlenecks and what to do
  • Unlocking value in your existing hardware and software licenses
  • What you can do today, literally right after or even during this webinar

Where to learn more

Learn more about Windows Server Summit and related topics via the following links:

Additional learning experiences along with common questions (and answers), as well as tips can be found in Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials book.

Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials Book SDDC

What this all means

The best I/O is the one you do not have to do, the second best is the one that has the least impact on your applications, while boosting user productivity. There are many differ net approaches to addressing various server storage I/O performance bottlenecks across applications. Join me on June 27, 2018 at 1 PM PT for the free webinar Solving Application Server Storage I/O Performance Bottlenecks Webinar and learn what you can do today to boost your uses productivity.

 

Ok, nuff said, for now.

Cheers Gs

Greg Schulz – Microsoft MVP Cloud and Data Center Management, VMware vExpert 2010-2018. Author of Software Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials (CRC Press), as well as Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press), Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier) and twitter @storageio. Courteous comments are welcome for consideration. First published on https://storageioblog.com any reproduction in whole, in part, with changes to content, without source attribution under title or without permission is forbidden.

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Many faces of storage hypervisor, virtual storage or storage virtualization

StorageIO industry trends cloud, virtualization and big data

Storage hypervisors were a 2012 popular buzzword bingo topic with plenty of industry adoption and some customer deployment. Separating the hype around storage hypervisors reveals conversations around backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving.

backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving
Cloud and virtualization components

Storage virtualization along with virtual storage and storage hypervisors have a theme of abstracting underlying physical hardware resources like server virtualization. The abstraction can be for consolidation and aggregation, or for enabling agility, flexibility, emulation and other functionality.

backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving

Storage virtualization can be implemented in different locations, in many ways with various functionality and focus. For example the abstraction can occur on a server, in an virtual or physical appliance (e.g. tin wrapped software), in a network switch or router, as well as in a storage system. The focus can be for aggregation, or data protection (HA, BC, DR, backup, replication, snapshot) on a homogeneous (all one vendor) or mixed vendor basis (heterogeneous).

backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving

Here is a link to a guest post that I recently did over at The Virtualization Practice looking at storage hypervisors, virtual storage and storage virtualization. As is the case with virtual storage, storage virtualization, storage for virtual environments, depending on your views, spheres of influence, preferences among other factors what you call a storage hypervisor will probably vary.

Additional related material:

  • Are you using or considering implementation of a storage hypervisor?
  • Cloud, virtualization, storage and networking in an election year
  • EMC VPLEX: Virtual Storage Redefined or Respun?
  • Server and Storage Virtualization – Life beyond Consolidation
  • Should Everything Be Virtualized?
  • How many degrees separate you and your information?
  • Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC)
  • The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC)
  • Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
  • backup, restore, BC, DR and archiving
  • Btw, as a special offer for viewers, I have some copies of Resilient Storage Networking: Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures (Elsevier) available for $19.95, shipping and handling included. Send me an email or tweet (@storageio) to learn more and get your copy (Major credit cards and Pay pal accepted).

    Ok, nuff said (for now)

    Cheers gs

    Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)

    twitter @storageio

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