A lot of announcements have been done lately(Scott Lowe’s for instance) so I could not stay behind. I will be joining the VMware Advanced Services department as the Cloud Architect for EMEA. As you can imagine I am thrilled that I have been given this huge opportunity and will be transitioning to this new position over the upcoming weeks. I [...]

I was just reading an article which is titled “Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal. I think it’s a very interesting article and actually shows how people think/feel about what cloud computing is offering. In this case it’s all about the perception and as with many users the perception of performance and the misunderstanding of the [...]

I just added a real life RAID penalty example to the IOps article. I know Sys Admins are lazy,  so here’s the info I just added: I have two IX4-200Ds at home which are capable of doing RAID-0, RAID-10 and RAID-5. As I was rebuilding my homelab I thought I would try to see what changing RAID levels would do [...]

Alan Renouf posted an article on the vSphere Quick Start Guide we recently wrote which triggered this article. First let me quote from Alan’s article: I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to do it in PowerCLI, we have added a code reference, this enables [...]

One of the articles which has always been in my top 10 most read(with most hits coming from google) is “ESXi 3.5 Update 2 on a USB memory key“. I have always used win image and 7-zip to get the job done. Basically you are cloning the image to a USB drive, which is fairly easy but we could use [...]

I was just figuring something out from the command line on an ESXi 4.0 host. I needed to mount a partition but a regular “mount” did not work so it took me a couple of seconds to realize why. The solution was simple and similar to the regular mount command: /usr/bin/busybox mount also might come in handy: /usr/bin/busybox fdisk -l [...]

I was just reading the excellent whitepaper that NetApp just published. The paper is titled “VMware vSphere multiprotocol performance comparison using FC, iSCSI and NFS“. I guess the title says enough and I don’t need to explain why it is important to read this one. I read the paper twice so far. Something that stood out for me is the [...]