To be honest, this did not come to my mind until I realized about bottlenecks shifts in storage. Back in a day when we were using spinning media, the only way we could improve IOPS was to change RAID type. For example from RAID 5 to RAID 10. This would obviously result in wasting much […]
How Much Does a VM cost ? Find out quickly with DC Scope
Have you ever wondered what’s the cost of a VM within your infrastructure? You know that VMs are not free. You have to pay for your physical infrastructure to be able to run some VMs on it. But depending on the density, workloads, and the number of vCPU, RAM, or disk configurations, not every infrastructure […]
Manage your Security and Compliance Globally Across Environments and Geo-locations via Runecast Platform
Runecast has grown again by providing global visibility enabling you to be able to achieve 100 % compliance within your enterprise. This can now be achieved with one unified platform. As enterprises have many geo locations and separate datacenters and remote offices across the globe. The management of such an environment with separate and siloed […]
StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) – Another layer of protection against Ransomware
Ransomware and cyber attacks are multiplying lately. Enterprise admins have the hardest task of protecting the company’s data and backups from ransomware, from accidental deletion of more and more sophisticated cyber-attacks. The protection that was sufficient 2-3 years ago now seems not so solid anymore. One of the solutions to protect backups is to isolate […]
Cool NSX-T, vSphere, AVI Networks, and other training courses for a friendly price
There are new training courses for VMware vSphere admins that be your interest. Especially interesting for vSphere admins which aren’t very strong in networking. So you can learn about vSphere networking with VSS and VDS but also other VMware products such as NSX-T, AVI Networks, vSphere 7+ …. those are some of the courses available […]
NAS Backup comming with Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.6 – Test the BETA
You can freely test this public beta of Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.6 which brings new features such as NAS backup allowing you to backup file shares or specific file shares on NAS devices. (NFS, SMB, and Windows or Linux file servers are supported). While testing you’ll be able to claim an Amazon Gift card […]
Upgrade Outdated hardware Infrastructure with Hyper Converged Appliance (HCA)?
This pow will describe some thoughts on today’s modern hardware and software and we’ll look at a possibility to Upgrade Outdated hardware Infrastructure with Hyper-Converged Appliance (HCA). When your aging hardware starts causing security problems because not able to run the latest software with all necessary security patches, it’s time to look at what ways […]
vMotion Performance Optimizaton VMware vSphere 7 U3
Ever since introducing vSphere 7 U2 that vSphere vMotion performance is more optimized out of the box. In this post, we’ll highlight some of the details that you might be or not, aware of. As you know, the performance of vMotion increases as you add more network bandwidth to your hosts. You basically add more […]
Software Defined Storage – StarWind Write-Back or Write-Through cache?
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) solutions are using cache to speed up the reads and writes operations. Usually, some of the cache (L1) is RAM and some of the caches is (L2) SSDs drives. Some users might be questioning whether to set write-through or write-back cache policy and what’s the advantage of the one over the other […]
Virtual Infrastructure Free Database Performance Testing Tool
There is a utility to test database workloads when running either on physical or virtual infrastructure. It is an open-source and freely available utility called DVD Store at https://github.com/dvdstore/ds3/. In this post we’ll go through some details about the latest version, v. 3.5 of the utility. Basically, the solution works like this: You create a […]
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