This is just a post to make it easier finding these excellent articles/threads on VMTN about measuring storage performance: Scott Drummonds – Storage System Performance Analysis with Iometer VMTN Unofficial Storage Perf Thread I – http://communities.vmware.com/thread/73745 VMTN Unofficial Storage Perf Thread II – http://communities.vmware.com/thread/19784 All these have one “requirement”  and that is that Iometer is used. Another one that I [...]

As part of my role I very often review design documents that other consultants/architect have written, and not only those of VMware employees but also from external people. On top of that of course I also see a lot of VCDX application packages pass by. Something struck me the other day when I was doing the 3rd review in just [...]

Lately I have been playing around in my Lab a lot. I tried many virtual appliances as I wanted to use a variety of workloads. I downloaded many appliances and hoped to have all of them up and running in a bare minimum amount of time. Apparently I miscalculated / underestimated the amount of work to get a virtual appliance [...]