Taking vSphere to the Next Level with Converged Infrastructure – vForum2013
At this months vForum in Sydney, Australia, I will be presenting “Taking vSphere to the Next Level with Converged Infrastructure”. The session discusses where the virtualization market is today along...
View ArticlevBrownbag – vForum Sydney 2013 – View Composer for Array Integration (VCAI)
Recently I presented a short vBrownbag on the topic of View Composer for Array Integration (VCAI) with a focus on how VCAI benefits Horizon View environments, Storage Protocol choice for Horizon View...
View ArticleUnlimited VMs per datastore? Its not a myth with Nutanix!
For many years, I have been asked on countless occasions questions relating to how many VMs can (or should) be placed in one datastore. In fact, just this morning I was asked this same question, and I...
View ArticleWhat does Exchange running in a VMDK on NFS datastore look like to the Guest OS?
In response to the recent community post “Support for Exchange Databases running within VMDKs on NFS datastores” , the co-authors and I have received lots of feedback, of which the vast majority has...
View ArticleVirtualizing Exchange on vSphere with NFS backed storage?
For many years, customers have been realising the benefits of file based storage from one or more of the many storage vendors offering NFS. NFS makes a ton of sense for virtualization, and virtualizing...
View ArticleESXi Host Isolation Response and custom isolation address configuration.
I was reviewing a vSphere design recently and I came across an interesting design choice which I thought I would share. The architect selected the isolation response of “Leave Powered On” and disabled...
View ArticleVirtualizing Business Critical Applications – The Web-Scale Way!
Since joining Nutanix back in July 2013, I have been working on testing the performance and resiliency of a range of virtual workloads including Business Critical Applications on the Nutanix platform....
View ArticleIs VAAI beneficial with Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) based solutions ?
I saw a tweet recently (below) which inspired me to write this post as there is still a clear misunderstanding of the benefits VAAI provides (even with Virtual Storage Appliances). I have removed the...
View ArticleRule of Thumb: Sizing for Storage Performance in the new world.
In the new world where storage performance is decoupled with capacity with new read/write caching and Hyper-Converged solutions, I always get asked: How do I size the caching or Hyper-Converged...
View ArticlevSphere | PVSCSI Adapters & striped/spanned NTFS volumes
A little while ago I wrote a post titled “Splitting SQL datafiles across multiple VMDKs for optimal VM performance” where I talked about how SQL databases can be split with minimal/no interruption to...
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