Let's assume a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on vSphere. The VM is a file server and needs to present around 10TB usable storage. In an ideal world Windows would just see a 10TB pool since there ...

In this video, Mark Henderson and Mike Pehlan from NetApp demonstrate how Dynamic Disk Pools enable performance, efficiency, and scalability. Watch as they cause a double-drive failure on two separate ...

I don't do very much with Windows these days so I'm a bit rusty. I have a Windows 2012 server that will be acting as a file server that I need to set up. Previously with Windows 2008 R2, I'd convert ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

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This week NetApp announced that the company is now shipping Dynamic Disk Pools, a powerful new data protection technology that improves overall system performance and is available on big data ...

There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

Much has changed at NetApp since the last NAB Show: dynamic disk pools in the E-Series storage systems that raise the bar for consistent video bandwidth; larger flash drives for accelerating big-data ...