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This session is moderated by Ron Oglesby, Service Director – Virtualization for Glass House Technologies. This is a Datadomain session that I anticipate to be a about the design and implementation issues faced by various Datadomain customers. No internet connection in this room so this will be a delayed post.

Like all the other sessions, the disclaimer slide is shown. I’ve learned from the last session not every session is going to have “forward looking” statements. Ron even commented that the slide was put in all the VMworld 2008 presentations by the VMware legal team.

Ron begins by discussing storage being the number one cost in a virtualization implementation. Snapshots, backups, and VM replication and cloning result in the need for large amounts of storage. Complicate this with the need for faster recovery, management automation, and increasing retention and compliance requirements help skyrocket the storage design footprint. Storage is implemented for virtualization too often as an afterthought.

Ron explains the session is about options for storing and replicating snapshots of VMs and the storage ramifications of server consolidation. The session will also illustrate how deduplication and virtualization complement each other.

The rest of the session was customer testimonials. The following are various comments from the customers that caught my attention. Read the rest of this entry »