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What Is a Blade Server?
I’ve been watching enterprise IT for over 20 years now, and I’ve seen some radical changes. In the server space, one of the biggest shifts was the form factor of the servers: From tower to rack-mount...
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Xangati Introduces Performance Profiling for VDI End-Users
Chris Wahl goes deep and geeky into the latest beta of Xangati’s VDI monitoring tool. It’s worth taking a look to see what they’re up to! The Xangati Dashboard has quickly become my go-to tool for...
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An introduction to Storage DRS
I’m not sure that everyone would agree that Storage DRS is the most exciting new feature in vSphere 5, but it’s certainly in the top 10. Here’s Duncan Epping’s overview of Storage DRS and datastore...
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So Your Boss Thinks You’re Stupid – Converged Infrastructure
An interesting thought about converged infrastructure. As Dwayne says: The issue that I have with converged infrastructure is that it’s solving a problem that these companies helped to create via...
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Server Hardware Explained
We’ve loved Brien Posey’s series on server hardware. Now that it’s wrapped up (all 9 parts!) it’s worth a look at the whole. In many ways server hardware really isn’t all that different from desktop...
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V & Network Card (NIC) Teaming
A great little piece on NIC teaming with Windows. Aidan Finn says his mind is changed now that it’s included in Windows Server 2012 and fully supported for Hyper-V and failover clustering. True, MSFT...
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EMC denies big server biz plans … but IS building servers
So EMC’s not going to become a server vendor even though, as Chris Mellor points out, they showcased some very nice purpose-built server hardware at EMC World. And even though Jeremy Burton admitted...
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Dependent hardware iSCSI adapter on ESXi5
The virtualization space seems a little light on technical content lately. There are plenty of event announcements and white paper or webinar promotions, but few posts on, you know, how stuff works....
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Dell Unveils ARM-based Server Ecosystem
So Dell has introduced ARM servers for hyperscale/cloud applications. This is very, very interesting, but also quite puzzling. Will they sell these to “regular” customers? And who would buy them? the...
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Defining EMC VSPEX
Couldn’t have said it better myself. EMC is following NetApp and Dell in introducing standard “cloud” configurations, and these aren’t vBlocks. Is this an admission that vBlock wasn’t a good idea after...
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Layer-2 Network Is a Single Failure Domain
This topic has been on my to-write list for over a year and its working title was phrased as a question, but all the horror stories you’ve shared with me over the last year or so (some of them...
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UCS and VCS a great combination
I’m not sure many Cisco UCS customers are really going to go out and buy Brocade VCS for converged networking, but they could. Here’s “UCS Guru” Colin Lynch on the benefits of this combination. The...
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MSSQL must really love Oracle (pun intended)
I don’t really agree with Hans’ “positive” lightning comment, unless you call it positive when you discover that Microsoft licensing is just as bad as VMware… But here you go! A great discussion of...
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ESXi 5 on an Apple Mac Mini
Awesome! VMware ESXi 5 on a Mac Mini Server! Here’s Christopher Wells on how his install and upgrade process went. I can report that the Minis are working quite well and were successful at performing...
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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… After...
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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...
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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...
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Data Center Overlays 101
Joe Onisick did a great job laying out the various datacenter network overlay technologies in this Show Me “chalk talk” presentation. © Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2013. | Data Center Overlays 101...
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Hyper-V over SMB – Sample Configurations
Jose Barreto – MSFT comments at TechNet: This post describes a few different Hyper-V over SMB sample configurations with increasing levels of availability. Not all configurations are recommended for...
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Microsoft Windows Server vs Chevy Camaro
A fun comparison of Microsoft’s continual updating to Windows Server to Chevrolet’s updates to the classic Camaro. Derek Melber lists some changes to both and tries to answer his core question: I think...
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