VMware vSphere 4 Implementation by Mike Laverick http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/ (expected release: Mid Feb 2009) It was spring 2009 when I was asked if I was interested in doing the technical editing of an upcoming vSphere book from Mike Laverick. I have always known Mike as a professional or even expert on VMware (even after 2 nights […]
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Configuring SNMP monitoring for the IX4-200D and IX2-200 in SolarWinds Orion
As you’ve all read in previous postings, I’m the proud owner of the new Iomega IX4-200D. After stressing it for two other blog posts, I was playing some more with all the features and tried to configure SNMP monitoring of the box. As monitoring application I have SolardWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor and I can […]
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, […]
StorMagic SvSAN with High Availability mirroring
Recently I had the opportunity to review StorMagic’s SvSAN software. Their current release available from their website is only compatible with VMware ESX 3.5, since my home lab is already running VMware vSphere I received the latest beta 4.1.913 which does work with vSphere. In this review I will not write on absolute performance since […]