In Kernel or Not In Kernel – This Is The Hyperconverged Question
The hot question at the moment in hyperconvergence (solutions that combine compute and storage into a distributed solution…
Internet Explorer Error After Windows Patches
A while back after installing some Windows patches I noticed that Internet Explorer 10 stopped working (as described…
VMware vSphere 6.0 Release Revolution for Mobile Cloud Era
While a lot of people (me included) are excited about the technical speeds and feeds of the vSphere 6…
Nutanix SQL Server DB VAAI Clone Performance
I’ve been doing work recently with SQL Server performance on the Nutanix platform. As part of this work…
The Need To Reboot ESXi Hosts After vCenter Upgrade
Most of you will be intimately familiar with vCenter Server. It provides the main management capabilities in a VMware Virtualized…
Demystifying Web-Scale IT
Just like consumerization of IT, mobility, and containers are having a profound impact on the way that applications are…
SQL Server Templates with VMware – Dude Where’s My Drive Letters?
One of the reasons to virtualize SQL Server and any other business critical application is that you can…
Performance Testing MySQL and PostgreSQL with HammerDB and PGBench
There are a lot of environments that are running MySQL and PostgreSQL to support their systems. My team…
Turbo Charge Oracle Database IO Performance
I was helping a customer troubleshoot a performance problem with their Oracle 11g R2 (11.2.0.4) database today and…
Fight the FUD: Data Corruption, Torn IO, Write Ordering and More
There is a lot of FUD about Data Corruption, Torn IO, Write Ordering and other aspects when using…