The Great Jumbo Frames Debate
Over the last couple of weeks the debate about whether or not to enable Jumbo Frames has been…
Business Critical Apps on VMware vSphere 5? Upgrade to Update 2!
With all of the excitement around vSphere 5.1 last year most of us had forgotten to mention the…
IO Blazing Single VM Storage Performance with Micron and Fusion-io
Some time ago I wrote about the IO Blazing Datastore Performance with Fusion-io that I was able to achieve…
Virtualized Oracle Databases on UCS
Some time ago I wrote an article about EMC’s Blueprint for Successful Large Scale Oracle Virtualization on vSphere. Now Cisco…
Fail to Mount ATS-Only VMFS Datastore in ESXi 5.x
I recently noticed VMware KB that talks about vSphere 5.x hosts may fail to mount an ATS-Only VMFS Datastore…
The Case for Larger Than 2TB Virtual Disks and The Gotcha with VMFS
Hypervisor competition is really starting to heat up. VMware just released vSphere 5.1 and Microsoft has recently released…
Workaround for Multi-NIC vMotion Unicast Flooding in vSphere 5
In my previous article “The Good, The Great and the Gotcha with Multi-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5” I discussed…
IO Blazing Datastore Performance with Fusion-io
Thanks to Simon Williams (@simwilli) from Fusion-io I’ve had the opportunity to try out a couple of the Fusion-io…
The Good, The Great, and the Gotcha with Multi-NIC vMotion in vSphere 5
One of the features many people may not be aware of that was released in vSphere 5 is…
Storage Sizing Considerations when Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
One of my fellow vExperts, Prasenjit Sarkar, has recently published a blog article titled Virtualizing BCA – What…