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VMWare Storage Growth – 5 Best Practices for Capacity Planning

Virtualized system resources often consume more storage than expected due to the proliferation and ease with which virtual machines (VMs) can be created. When using shared storage that supports VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V (the two leading virtualization technologies), you can expect two waves of increases. The first will occur at the onset of the virtualization effort. The second wave will happen as users gain acceptance—and test, development and quality assurance copies are created to build new unique environments and feature sets.

Here are five tips for making sure your VMWare storage can handle those increases:

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EMC SnapView is a pretty cool product.

Instead of backing up and recovering data from tape, EMC CLARiiON customers can use SnapView to make a quick disk-based copy for testing or backup.

So if EMC SnapView is so great, why is it that more people don't use it protect more mission critical data?

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