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…
Nutanix Oracle RAC vMotion
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…
Nutanix: Understanding Web-Scale IT For Anyone
Nutanix has taken the concepts from Web-Scale companies, such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and transformed it into…
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…
Web Scale Wishing a Datacenter Refresh to a Deserving Charity
For non-profit and charitable organisations every dollar spent on the back end is a dollar that can’t be…
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…
Installing Cumulus Linux from a MacBook Pro
Cumulus Linux is the answer to companies that want to run software defined networking on a range of…