Mrs. Y on the reality of security practices: The business of information security seems to be more about superstition than science. The CISO is just another slob who desperately wants to believe that some sexy, new technology...
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OpenCompute Servers and the Impact on Networking @EtherealMind
Greg Ferro on the implications of OpenCompute on networking: Here is what I’m imagining. I have an OpenCompute rack with blade of CPUs and Memory instead of racks of routers. Typical Intel servers can handle 10Gbps of routing...
End user self service event | vinfrastructure.it
Andrea Mauro blogs about Microsoft’s new MTA certification: Note that actually there isn’t a specific track for virtualization and is not clear if a Virtualization Fundamentals will be introduced or not. Note also that now...
Fun and Games with VDR and Snapshots | vNinja.net
Christian Mohn writes about his challenge with VMware Data Recovery (VDR) and orphaned snapshots: I recently visited a client who had problems with their VDR appliance, and every attempted backup left orphaned snapshots behind...
Is high vSphere storage latency always a bad thing? (viktorious)
Viktor van den Berg explains how vSphere storage latency should be determined, and why blocksize is an important matter: So, let’s say we have a latency that’s bigger then 30ms, do we have problem? Not necessarily, the SCSI block...
Storage QoS In The Cloud (Chris Evans)
In this post Chris writes about Storage I/O control in Cloud offering and on Storage arrays: QoS on Storage To my knowledge, today only SolidFire offers a storage array capable of delivering quality of service for I/O. All...
Are you using or considering implementation of a storage hypervisor? (Greg Schulz)
What is a storage hypervisor? Are you already using one? A great post by Greg Schulz about storage hypervisors: Storage virtualization (and storage hypervisor) considerations include: What are the various application requirements...
Happy new year
First of all we want to wish you all a happy and healthy 2013. During the last couple of months this blog has been a bit quiet, so Stephen and Arjan concluded GestaltIT.com needed a refresh. To do this we (Stephen Foskett...
When RamDisks Get Full | PlanetVM
This is just the sort of cool technical tip that saves your bacon when it's lodged somewhere in your mind: What happens when the VMware ESXi RAMdisk gets full? Here's Tom Howarth's account...
ESXi 5 on an Apple MacMini
Awesome! VMware ESXi 5 on a Mac Mini Server! Here's Christopher Wells on how his install and upgrade process went.