VMware News, Views, and How-To's from vExpert Josh Townsend
We all know that virtualization allows us to do more with less. Fewer servers and space-saving storage (talk about an oxymoron) help us put some green in the datacenter and back in the budget. But with tight budgets demanding greater efficiency, … [Continue reading] about Right-sizing Your Power and Cooling
This is the third in a multi-part series on storage basics. I've had some good feedback from folks in the SMB space saying that the first couple posts in this series have been beneficial, so we'll be sticking with some basic concepts for another … [Continue reading] about Storage Basics – Part III: RAID
Happy New Year to everyone! 2010 is shaping up to be quite a good year, both personally and professionally. Between two little boys at home and a bunch of new projects at work I should stay busy. I will also continue to co-lead the Washington, DC … [Continue reading] about Vote Now for Top Virtualization Bloggers
In Part I of this series, I discussed the important of storage performance in a virtual environment (really any environment, virtual or not, where you want acceptable performance), and introduced some of the basic measures of a storage environment. … [Continue reading] about Storage Basics – Part II: IOPS
I am increasingly finding that both my SMB and Enterprise customers are uneducated on the fundamentals of storage sizing and performance. As a result, storage is often overlooked as a performance bottleneck despite it being a vital component to … [Continue reading] about Storage Basics – Part I: An Introduction
