Comments on: Sneaky Peak – NetApp Plug-in

By: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:50:48 +0000

Bruce – The RCU is a no cost tool which is fully supported as long as the NetApp storage arrays managed by the RCU are under support.

By: Bruce Wolfeld

Bruce Wolfeld — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:22:49 +0000

Great tool! What is the license model for RCU 2.1? What is NetApp’s support policy?

By: Abhinav Joshi

Abhinav Joshi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:06:13 +0000

The NetApp/VMware/CISCO Reference Architecture highlighting the joint power of VMware linked clones and NetApp RCU can be found here:

http://blogs.netapp.com/virtualization/2009/06/new-cisco-vmware-netapp-vdi-design-guide-tr3770.html

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10051

By: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:37:06 +0000

The RCU supports VI3 today. The initial release of the VSC requires vCenter 4 and it can report on VI3 hosts but cannot automate config changes as the APIs between ESX/ESXi 3 & ESX/ESXi 4 servers is different.

By: Vaughn Stewart

Vaughn Stewart — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:18:18 +0000

Quest vWorkspace is is fully integrated with NetApp cloning and dedupe technology!

http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provision/2009/08/04/quest-vworkspace-62-released/

Enjoy!

By: Ronny

Ronny — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:02:57 +0000

Hi Mike,

do you know if RCU 2.1 and the Virtual Storage Console will also be available for VI3 environments? Because the RCU 2.0.1 is also available for VI3.

thanks

By: Abhinav Joshi

Abhinav Joshi — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:33:58 +0000

Hi,
I work as Reference Architect in the Server and Desktop virtualization business unit at NetApp and responsible for developing NetApp VDI best practices and support partner integration.
The good news is that Quest vWorkspace 6.2 now directly integrates with NetApp rapid cloning. Check out this link for further details.
http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provision/2009/08/04/quest-vworkspace-62-released/
Currently with Leostream, you can easily import the VMs into the connection broker once they are created and populated in vCenter.

Please email me at abhinavj@netapp.com if you have further questions.

Regards,
Abhinav

By: Luke from NetApp

Luke from NetApp — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:36:37 +0000

Hi – maybe I can help answer that question…

The Rapid Cloning Utility can be used to provision desktop VMs, which can then be brokered via Quest, Leostream, or any other connection broker.

It’s just that in the case of VMware View and the Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller (part of the XenDesktop suite), the RCU can automatically make those brokers aware that new desktop VMs have been provisioned – by defining a new pool to use those VMs, or addding the VMs to an existing pool.

As an interesting alternative, Quest have recently released vWorkspace 6.2, which has NetApp integration built in (see http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provision/2009/08/04/quest-vworkspace-62-released/).

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:52:14 +0000

The quick answer is – I don’t know. It looks unlikely given this preview of the RCU shows only VMware/Citrix brokers….

By: vTechnologist

vTechnologist — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:59:27 +0000

This is very cool!!!

Will NetApp support the Quest or Leostream Connection Brokers?

Most of my customers prefer either one of these connection brokers rather then the VMware or Citrix versions.