IT Infrastructure Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) – Corona...
Back in 2014, I wrote about Hardware support contracts & why 24×7 4 hour onsite should no longer be required. For those of you who haven’t read the article, I recommend doing so prior to reading...
View ArticlePeak Performance vs Real World Performance
In this post I will be discussing Real World Performance of Storage solutions compared to peak performance. To make my point I will be using some car analogies which will hopefully assist in getting my...
View ArticleMy Journey to Double-VCDX
It was back in 2011 when I started my journey to VCDX which was a fantastic learning experience which has helped improve my skills as an Enterprise Architect. After achieving VCDX-DCV in May 2012, I...
View ArticleMy NPX Journey
I have had an amazing learning experience in the last few months, expanding my skills into a second hypervisor being Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) as well as continuing to enhance my knowledge on the...
View ArticleThe Key to performance is Consistency
In recent weeks I have been doing lots of proof of concepts and performance testing using tools such as Jetstress (with great success I might add). What I have always told customers is to focus on...
View ArticleAcropolis Hypervisor (AHV) I/O Failover & Load Balancing
Many customers and partners have expressed interest in Acropolis since it was officially launched at .NEXT in June earlier this year, and since then lots of questions have been asked around...
View ArticleWhy Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) is the next generation hypervisor –...
You may be surprised cost is so far down the list but as you have probably realized by reading the previous 9 parts is that AHV is in many ways a superior virtualization platform to other products on...
View ArticleNutanix AHV I/O path efficiency
The I/O path in AHV is unlike other hypervisors and is remarkably simple. Each VM is made up of one or more vDisks, with each vDisk presented directly to the VM via iSCSI. vDisks appear to the guest OS...
View ArticleThe balancing act of choosing a solution based on Requirements & Budget...
I am frequently asked how to architect solutions when you have constraint/s which prevent you meeting requirements. It is not unusual for customers to have an expectation that they need and can get the...
View ArticleThe ATO 5-day outage, like most outages was completely avoidable.
A while back I saw news about the Australian Tax Office (ATO) having a major outage of their storage solution and recently an article was posted titled “ATO reveals cause of SAN failure” which briefly...
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