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Blade Servers: Boot options for leveraging server-side flash « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2013/12/11/blade-servers-boot-options-for-leveraging-server-side-flash
Blade Servers: Boot options for leveraging server-side flash. Posted on December 11, 2013. Boot from local disk. Boot from SD card/thumb drive. Boot from network (Auto-deploy). Boot from local disk. In the case of blade servers I don't usually recommend booting from local disk. It is a perfectly valid option of course but the number of drive bays are limited so why waste one or both of them for ESXi? Many people don't know or forget that once ESXi is loaded it runs in memory. Boot from SD/Thumb drive.
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Accelerating Real World SQL Workloads with PernixData FVP « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2013/11/22/accelerating-real-world-sql-workloads-with-pernixdata-fvp
Accelerating Real World SQL Workloads with PernixData FVP. Posted on November 22, 2013. It's one thing to test various acceleration tools with Iometer and another to demonstrate real world performance. For this series of posts I thought that I would post some graphs for a few standard enterprise applications from a production implementation. This post covers MS SQL Server. The server names have been changed to provide a description of the primary application running on them. MS SQL Server 1. Avoid proble...
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Swing by the Las Vegas VMUG Holiday Party on Dec. 6! « VirtualBacon
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Swing by the Las Vegas VMUG Holiday Party on Dec. 6! Posted on December 5, 2013. I will be at the Las Vegas VMUG Holiday Party. On Friday, December 6 at the M Resort Spa Casino. In Henderson, NV. If you have not yet registered walk-ins are welcome! The Las Vegas VMUG leadership has worked hard to put together a multi-sponsor event and I will be there on behalf of Pernix. After you've gotten your geek on round out the evening with dinner, dancing, networking, and evening cocktails! Real World IIS/.Net...
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PernixData at Virtualization Field Day 5 « VirtualBacon
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PernixData at Virtualization Field Day 5. Posted on June 23, 2015. Ust a quick heads up that our CTO Satyam Vaghani will be sharing some big announcements at Virtualization Field Day 5 (VFD5) on Wednesday, June 24th (tomorrow as I type this)! If you have seen his presentations before then you know that in addition to presenting the awesomeness that is FVP as a clustered performance tier for any storage, Satyam is incredibly witty and tells a great story. Live stream of the VFD5 presentation. Designing fo...
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Real World Domain Controller on FVP « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2013/12/06/real-world-dc-on-fvp
Real World Domain Controller on FVP. Posted on December 6, 2013. Continuing the series of posts on real world acceleration of enterprise applications this post demonstrates results of accelerating a Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller in a mid-size enterprise. A quick refresher on the environment:. 8 node ESXi 5.0 Update 2 cluster with Dell M620 blade servers. Back-end array with about 250 spindles (a combination of FC, SAS, and SATA disks) able to deliver approximately 35,000 - 40,000 IOPS. As you can see...
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Holiday vBeers tonight at 5:30 at the Bellevue TapHouse « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2013/12/03/holiday-vbeers-tonight-at-530-at-the-bellevue-taphouse
Holiday vBeers tonight at 5:30 at the Bellevue TapHouse. Posted on December 3, 2013. Ok so it's not really a holiday vBeers but it's December and the holiday season for many so that's a good enough excuse right? I realize that there are many of you who do not follow @SeattleVMUG or @SeattlevBeers on Twitter so I thought that I would post another note here. All while you hang out with fellow virtualization guys and gals a block away having a few drinks and talking shop! Subscribe to comments on this post ).
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PernixData FVP 2.0 Overview « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2014/11/11/pernixdata-fvp-2-0
PernixData FVP 2.0 Overview. Posted on November 11, 2014. PernixData released FVP 2.0 on October 1st, 2014, adding a number of significant new features to the already award winning. New features in FVP 2.0. Adding to pre-existing support of block protocols (iSCSI, FC, FCoE, DAS), FVP 2.0 adds support for NFS, rounding out support of all VMware-supported storage protocols. This means that FVP is now a single tool that can be used in any VMware environment. Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory (DFTM). Because...
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Real World IIS/.Net Workload Acceleration with PernixData « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2014/01/07/real-world-iis-net-workload-acceleration-with-pernixdata
Real World IIS/.Net Workload Acceleration with PernixData. Posted on January 7, 2014. Continuing the series of posts on real world acceleration of enterprise applications this post demonstrates results of accelerating Windows 2003 and 2008 IIS Web and Application servers running .NET in a mid-size enterprise. A quick refresher on the environment:. 8 node ESXi 5.0 Update 2 cluster with Dell M620 blade servers. PernixData FVP installed with a 400 GB Intel S3700 SSD drive in each host. PernixData at VMworld...
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Speeding Up Real World Sharepoint Workloads with PernixData FVP « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2013/11/26/speeding-up-real-world-sharepoint-workloads-with-pernixdata-fvp
Speeding Up Real World Sharepoint Workloads with PernixData FVP. Posted on November 26, 2013. Continuing the series of posts on real world acceleration of enterprise applications this post demonstrates results of accelerating SharePoint 2010 workloads in a mid-size enterprise environment. I cover both SharePoint Application servers as well as a SharePoint Search server. A quick refresher on the environment:. 8 node ESXi 5.0 Update 2 cluster with Dell M620 blade servers. SharePoint 2010 App Server 1.
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Reading S.M.A.R.T. disk data in ESXi « VirtualBacon
http://virtualbacon.net/2014/03/10/reading-s-m-a-r-t-disk-data-in-esxi
Reading S.M.A.R.T. disk data in ESXi. Posted on March 10, 2014. Beginning in vSphere 5.1 VMware provides the ability to look at S.M.A.R.T. data for HDD and SSD. As described in the VMware documentation. An esxcli command is available to retrieve S.M.A.R.T. data from the disks. This can be useful to keep track of the health of your drives, perhaps including trying to estimate how much life is left in your flash drives - something about which I am occasionally asked. Here is an example from a host in my lab.
