FlexClones or Deduplication?
Monday, 06 July 2009 by Michel Roth
If you have a NetApp box and if you are thinking FlexClones or Deduplication then this article is for you. Especially if you are thinking about this in a VDI context.

I’ve discussed this topic before, but I felt like it was a topic that needed to be revisited again. Storage admins need to know how their choices in storage technologies may or may not impact virtualization efforts, and this particular choice—leveraging pointer-based snapshots or deduplication—is particularly important.

A number of times over the last few months, I’ve run into situations where NetApp’s FlexClone technology was being heavily pitched to customers interested in deploying, or expanding their deployment of, VMware Infrastructure.

Source: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/07/03/republished-flexclones-or-deduplication/


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