Performance Testing with Microsoft DiskSpd
I’ve been working with a few customers recently that have been using the Microsoft DiskSPD Tool for doing…
Nutanix: First Hyperconverged Vendor with SAP Certified Platform
Nutanix is the only hyperconverged company in the Leaders of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, and recently became…
Rapid Provisioning of SQL Server Test Environments with Nutanix
I’ve been doing some work recently with SQL Server and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor on a older Nutanix NX3400…
Performance Testing Oracle Databases with Swingbench Order Entry Schema
When you are looking at a new project and want to validate the performance of a database platform you…
Nutanix .Next Conference Is Really All About .You – The Customers and Partners!
This week I had the ultimate privilege of attending the first Nutanix .Next Conference and present some of…
VMware vSphere: A Great Place to Run Enterprise Databases
I saw a tweet today (shown below) that reminded me of 27th August, 2012. This was the day…
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…
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…