Category: storage

All-Flash is changing your hardware support

A couple of weeks back at Episode 29 of the In Tech We Trust podcast we talked about the the failure rate of flash drives. […]

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Production storage needs new benchmarks

Dragster Benchmarking I’ve ranted on this more than once. Benchmarks are 99% of the time utter bull… and tell you nothing about what the solution’s […]

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vSphere 6 NFS4.1 does not include parallel striping!

Oh how happy are we that VMware FINALLY decided to add support for NFS4.1 especially since the NFS3 client’s major problem has always been single-session […]

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Flipping the Cloud Paradigm – part II

A little over a year ago I wrote “Are you a cloud paranoia”. The baseline of the post was that people don’t trust Public Cloud […]

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My checkbox is bigger than your checkbox!

This morning Josh Odgers from Nutanix published a blogpost where he rightfully pointed out that having support for a specific feature(set) doesn’t necessarily mean the […]

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vSphere Storage Array FEEDBACK requested

I am working on a lengthy post/presentation related to UNMAP on all levels of the stack (from Guest Volume to Physical disk). During my research […]

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VMWorld vendor update: Infinio 2.0

Infinio is just one of those small startups you just cannot love enough. Most of that is actually due to their great choice of people. […]

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my VVols vendor info landing page

After almost two years of teasing the audience we finally can start getting a grip on VMware VVols. Why so long you ask? If you […]

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VSAN Clustering – FactCheck update!

When I don’t have everything by hand, I need the support of people who do, to do some FactChecking on my posts. Therefor; thank you […]

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VSAN: the performance impact of extra nodes versus failure

This post makes more sense if you know the background. Therefore please read this Reddit post where an early adopter had an issue with VSAN. […]

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Why Windows Scale Out File Server is not Scale Out

At the E2EVC convention – by the way the best geek convention for virtualization people – Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) gave a great presentation on how […]

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CARINGO resurrects?

[WARNING] Long read but probably worth it 🙂 It’s been a while since we heard something from Caringo, let alone being it good news … […]

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