…. Duncan Epping and his very good blog Yellow-Bricks. It wasn’t completely unexpected since Duncan’s blog is definitely the one with the best in-depth content and a very high number of new posting every month again. Well deserved Duncan. I would like to thank all the people that voted for me and helped me reach […]
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. […]
Memory overcommit in production? YES YES YES
There was a good discussion on twitter on memory overcommit and the value of memory overcommit and whether you should or should not use it in production. What struck me in this was that on a subject like this, there is so much misunderstanding although there is a lot of documentation available that can explain […]
Vote now!
Eric Siebert has opened the polls for a new round of voting for the Top 20 virtualization bloggers list. I was very honored to be at 8th place in last years poll at http://vlp.vsphere-land.com/ and I hope to be in that top 20 again even though competition has stepped up. Seen some great new blogs […]