StorMagic Real Life Use Cases

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Hans O'Sullivan

Hans O’Sullivan, CEO, discusses various customer use cases for the StorMagic SvSAN technology.


StorMagic SvSAN Introduction and Demos

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Chris Farey

Chris Farey, CTO, introduces the SvSAN product from StorMagic and demonstrates end-to-end storage provisioning, server failure, bare metal recovery, and dynamic data migration.


StorMagic SvSAN Technical Background

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Chris Farey

Chris Farey, CTO, goes into the background archtecture of the SvSAN product from StorMagic. Topics discussed include high availability, management, monitoring, and scalability.


Who Is StorMagic?

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: StorMagic Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: StorMagic

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Personnel: Hans O'Sullivan

Hans O’Sullivan, CEO, introduces StorMagic and discusses their beginnings as well as their SvSAN product and their target market.


Cloudbursting Use Cases with Avere Systems

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Avere

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Personnel: Scott Jeschonek

Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management, discusses use cases for the Avere Virtual FXT around the concept of cloudbursting and moving data to public cloud storage easily.


Avere Virtual FXT Demonstrations

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Avere

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Personnel: Bernhard Behn

Bernhard Behn, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, demonstrates the Avere Virtual FXT. Demos include spinning up a Virtual FXT cluster, scaling cloud workloads without over utilization, and integrating on-premises Core Filers with Virtual FXT.


Reinventing Storage with Avere Systems

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Avere

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Personnel: Scott Jeschonek

Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management, introduces Avere Systems and discusses the history of their product evolution to meet customer needs.


Avere Systems Introduces Virtual FXT

Event: Storage Field Day 6

Appearance: Avere Systems Presents at Storage Field Day 6

Company: Avere

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Personnel: Scott Jeschonek

Scott Jeschonek, Director of Product Management, introduces the Avere Virtual FXT edge filer and discusses its capabilities.


Veeam Snapshot Hunter

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Rick Vanover

Rick Vanover’s presentation on Veeam’s new Snapshot Hunter feature, recorded on October 16, 2014, delves into the necessity and functionality of this tool. Vanover begins by explaining the common issues faced in VMware environments, particularly when backup processes do not go as planned. He highlights that Veeam leverages vSphere APIs for data protection, but sometimes these APIs fail to complete tasks, leading to what is known as a “false report of success.” This issue can result in orphan snapshots that are invisible in the VMware console, causing significant problems like data store crashes due to space exhaustion. Snapshot Hunter was developed to address these issues by identifying and consolidating stuck snapshots, thereby preventing these invisible snapshots from causing long-term problems.

Vanover elaborates on how Snapshot Hunter operates by continuously checking the data store for snapshot file types and attempting to remove them if they are found. This process is automated and runs in the background at the end of every backup job, ensuring that even if vSphere reports a successful snapshot removal, Snapshot Hunter will verify and take corrective action if necessary. The feature is designed to be seamless and requires no additional setup from the user, making it a robust safeguard against the common issue of orphan snapshots. By following a sequence of commands similar to those used by Veeam’s support team, Snapshot Hunter can effectively manage and resolve these issues without user intervention.

The presentation also touches on the broader implications of Snapshot Hunter for businesses that rely on continuous data protection. Vanover emphasizes that features like Snapshot Hunter and Backup IO Control are essential for maintaining the performance and reliability of backup operations. These tools help ensure that businesses can take backups without fear of encountering significant issues, thereby supporting the “always on” business model. The feature is included in all editions of Veeam’s version eight, making it accessible to a wide range of users and providing a critical layer of protection that can prevent performance degradation and data loss due to orphan snapshots.


Veeam Backup I/O Control

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Luca Dell'Oca

Luca Dell’Oca presents Veeam Backup I/O Control, discussing the need for it and how it works.


Veeam Endpoint Backup Free

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Veeam Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: Veeam Software

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Personnel: Doug Hazelman

Doug Hazelman introduces Veeam Endpoint Backup Free and Rick Vanover demonstrates the feature in action.


Diablo Plus VMware – The Impact of Acceleration

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Diablo Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: Diablo

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Personnel: Ricky Trigalo

Ricky Trigalo of Diablo and Daniel Beveridge of VMware present the impact of memory channel storage on VDI acceleration.


Diablo Introduction: Unleashing Virtualization Performance

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Diablo Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: Diablo

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Personnel: Jerome McFarland

Jerome McFarland introduces Diablo memory channel storage and discusses the benefits of moving flash from SSD to PCIe to memory channel.


Is Hyperconvergence the New Data Center Architecture?

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: Hyperconvergence Roundtable Discussion

Company: TBD

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Personnel: Andrew Mauro, Arjan Timmerman, Ed Grigson, Erik Ableson, Hans De Leenheer, Joep Piscaer, José Luis Gómez, Marco Broeken, Nigel Poulton

The Tech Field Day delegates take on the topic of hyperconverged infrastructure.


VMTurbo Software Driven Control for the Software Defined World

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: VMTurbo Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: VMTurbo

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Personnel: Shmuel Kliger

Shmuel Kliger, founder and president of VMTurbo, presents his vision of Software Driven Control for the Software Defined World.


VMTurbo’s Invisible Hand of the Data Center Demo

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: VMTurbo Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: VMTurbo

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Personnel: Shmuel Kliger

Following Shmuel Kliger’s presentation on Software Driven Control for the Software Defined World, this presentation demonstrates the VMTurbo solution in action.


X-IO Corporate Update with Gavin McLaughlin

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: X-IO Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: Gavin McLaughlin

X-IO VP of Worldwide Marketing Gavin McLaughlin updates the Tech Field Day delegates.


X-IO Storage VDI Testing Update

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Appearance: X-IO Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at VMworld Europe 2014

Company: X-IO

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Personnel: Hollis Beall

Hollis Beall, Director of Technical Marketing, updates the Tech Field Day delegates on the X-IO Storage VDI testing numbers and discusses the overall product architecture and technologies.


Tech Field Day Delegate Roundtable at Interop New York 2014

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2014

Appearance: Interop New York 2014 Delegate Roundtable

Company: TBD

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Personnel: TBD

Join Tech Field Day at Interop New York 2014 for a roundtable discussion about hot topics in IT. The delegates discuss the growing need for independent trade shows like Interop as well as the need for additional basic education for technology professionals.


Cisco Intelligent WAN with Akamai Connect

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2014

Appearance: Cisco Presents at Tech Field Day Extra at Interop New York 2014

Company: Cisco Borderless

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Personnel: Randy D'Souza

Randy D’Souza, Solutions Engineer, introduces Akamai Connect, a branch caching solution used with Cisco Intelligent WAN. This video shows the capabilities of Akamai Connect as well as the reduction in load times of web pages when using the solution.