Real World Data Reduction from Hybrid SSD + HDD Storage
There is a lot of talk from All Flash vendors and vendors of different types of Hyperconverged (combining…
VMTURBO VMWORLD® 2016 SWEEPSTAKES
Our friends at VMTurbo are at it again this year. Do you want to attend VMworld® 2016 US…
Configuring Oracle Grid 12c with GNS Don’t Use .Local DNS
While setting up Oracle 12c RAC in the Nutanix performance labs and using GNS for name resolution I…
Performance Testing with Microsoft DiskSpd
I’ve been working with a few customers recently that have been using the Microsoft DiskSPD Tool for doing…
Default Maximum IO Size Change in Linux Kernel
Some people may have noticed something changed in the Linux Kernel. The change could impact all storage IO…
Oracle Licensing and Support on VMware: Awaken the FUD in Your Datacenter!
It appears those guys in Redwood City, California are up to their old tricks of trying to grab money…
Heads Up! Do Not Upgrade VMware Tools on Hosts with ESXi 6.0 U1b
Heads Up! If you’ve updated to ESXi 6.0 U1b, build 3380124 and you have lots of templates, you…
VMTurbo Giving Away a Home Lab
This is just a quick post to let you know that VMTurbo is giving away a Home Lab…
LACP Configuration for VMware Distributed Switch and Dell Force10 OS
In the article Configuring Scalable Low Latency L2 Leaf-Spine Network Fabrics with Dell Networking Switches I wrote about the general…
VMware Distributed vSwitch LACP Configuration with Dell Force10 and Cumulus Linux
In my article Etherchannel and IP Hash or Load Based Teaming? I argued that using port channels and Etherchannel…