vPivot

If you have heard me talk in the past year, you have heard me relate stories of storage issues causing performance problems that are wrongly blamed on VMware.  Mark Bowker of ESG recently presented a generalized version of a customer story that relates the same tale.  Luckily (for me) the customer caught the problem before completing the deployment.  This may have saved me a customer call to unravel a basic problem.  But the customer was burned and virtualization progress slowed if not stopped.

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