I was just reading up and noticed an article about Nutanix. Nutanix is a “new” company which just came out of stealth mode and offers a datacenter in a box type of solution. With that meaning that they have a solution which provides shared storage and compute resources in a single 2u chassis. This 2u chassis can hold up to [...]
After the VCDX defenses Boston I had a chat with Craig Risinger, also known as 006 . We discussed some of the things we’d seen on the panels and came to the conclusion that it wouldn’t hurt to reiterate some of the tips we’ve given in the past. It’s OK to change your actual project documents. See the following points [...]
VMware has just released version 1.1 of the VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). As I know many of my readers are actively working on View projects I thought it might be of interest for you. VMware Desktop Technical Marketing & TS Research Labs are jointly announcing the availability of VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC) version 1.1. [...]
After the VCDX defenses last week in Munich and the defense sessions we had during VMware PEX I want to stress the following from my VCDX Defense blog article: Next two are role-play based. The panel is the customer and you are the architect. By asking questions, white boarding, discussions you will need to solve an issue or come to [...]
Lately I am having a lot of discussions with customers around sizing of their hosts. Especially Cisco UCS(with the 384GB option) and the upcoming Intel Xeon 5600 series with six cores per CPU takes the “Scale Up” discussion to a new level. I guess we had this discussion in the past as well when 32GB became a commodity. The question I always [...]
I’ve been conducting VCDX Defense Interviews for a while now. Last week in Las Vegas during PEX something struck me and I guess this post by Frank Denneman is a good example… On a regular basis I come across NFS based environments where the decision is made to store the virtual machine swap files on local VMFS datastores. Using host-local [...]
