In his keynote address at VMworld, Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO, said that virtualization “is partly to blame, as we hide the I/O patterns from the underlying storage … changing the characteristics of the storage environment itself.” While the statement is correct and it’s great to see VMware acknowledge this–it’s hardly fair to blame VMware. The real problem lies in the disjoint between two fundamentally different architectures. VMware has created a shared-services architecture that virtualizes the underlying physical assets. Although architected almost 25 years ago, storage still relies on this original design, which was created to be a subsystem to a … more >
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