As many of you expected, the new VMware vSphere version is called VMware vSphere 4.1. The hints have been clear these past few weeks and today it became official. Today was the official release and we can finally start blogging about VMware vSphere’s latest features. In the next few days I will post a number […]
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Putting your storage to the test – Part 2 NFS on Iomega IX4-200D
After performing the tests with iSCSI and discussing the results with a friend of mine, I was a little disappointed as it seemed that the IX4 didn’t seem to perform as well as his system. Biggest difference between my IX4 and his NAS was the use of iSCSI on the IX4 and NFS on his. […]
Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega IX4-200D
Putting your storage to the test Doesn’t everybody want to brag about how fast their storage is? How they configured and tweaked for hours to squeeze the last bit of IO out of their storage? But what does it mean when someone says: “My box can do 1200 IOPSâ€. Is that read speed, write speed, […]
Harlem shuffle with VMDKs
Today I was brainstorming with Arnim van Lieshout about how to place all VMDKs on our LUNs, because right now we are facing two problems in our environment: No balancing of IO workloads across LUNs VMDKs often don’t fit nicely into the remaining LUNs space, so we lose a lot of GBs to unused space. […]