AHV

Storage Services in Depth: Compression, Deduplication, and EC-X on AOS 7.3

This is article 04 of the Nutanix Cluster Design Fundamentals series, targeting AOS 7.3 with AHV 10.3 and Prism Central 7.3. NCD-03 walked the

By Eric Black · 22 Jun 2026 AHV

Storage Architecture and the Distributed Storage Fabric

NCD-03 in the Nutanix Cluster Design Fundamentals series, baselined to AOS 7.3, AHV 10.3, and Prism Central 7.3. This article takes apart the Distributed

By Eric Black · 15 Jun 2026 Proxmox

Proxmox Storage Architecture: ZFS, Ceph, LVM-thin, NFS, iSCSI, and Snapshots as Volume Chains

Article 3 in the Proxmox VE Cluster Design Fundamentals for v9.1 series. PVCD-01 covered the cluster control plane; PVCD-02 covered the network. This article covers

By Eric Black · 15 May 2026 Hyper-V

Storage Architecture for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2025: SAN, S2D, SOFS, and Campus Cluster

Article 3 in the Hyper-V Cluster Design Fundamentals for Windows Server 2025 series. Article 1 covered the design pillars. Article 2 covered networking. This article covers storage

By Eric Black · 28 Apr 2026