Monthly Archives: December 2011

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Some random musing on the storage industry as a whole

I have a lot of thoughts on the path storage is moving which might take a few pages to expound upon. I’ll probably update this as I consolidate my line of thought, but here is what I’m seeing right now: … Continue reading

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Benchmarking Tools under the covers

Through Howard Marks and a discussion on needing new bench mark tools, I saw this link to Demartek digging under the covers of the various IO tools to find that some of those data sets really lend themselves well to … Continue reading

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HP Joins the Club for Hard Drive price increases

Chris Mellor over at El Reg has the specifics. Consider this no big surprise as all the big vendors will follow suit, and the trickle down will hit the storage industry as a whole. The big mystery factor will be … Continue reading

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Virtual Toys for Tots

The good folks over at Xangati are running a #virtualtoysfortots campaign  Xangati pledges to donate up to 250 toys to the program – but we need your tweets – to fill up the bins before Dec 20th. Take the few seconds now to … Continue reading

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Drive manufactures increasing prices, reducing warranties

EMC announced that they will be putting a 15% premium for the price of all drives indefinateley because of the flooding in Thailand. That can’t make their customer base very happy. Still nothing says “get that end of the year … Continue reading

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Holiday Present from Veeam

Are you a vExpert? VCP? VCI? VMUG member? Well if you are then Veeam has a present for you.  If you are a VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Professional (VCP), VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) or VMware User Group (VMUG) member, you can … Continue reading

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Ultimate ESX Virtrualization Contest Update

A Winnar is Me! Wow I won! But in all honesty, I already have all 3 prizes, so in good conscious I could not accept the 3rd place prize of Mastering VMware 5 by Scott Lowe. I already have Veeam … Continue reading

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Some more benchmark results with IO Analyzer

Ok so digging a little deeper into how I had my config setup and running some more tests today. Wanted to see peaks for a single VM instead of several, even though I believe that multiple machines running multiple types … Continue reading

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Playing around with VMware IO Analyzer

About a year ago I was at an EMC event in Orange County, I think it was one of the traveling roadshow type events and they had some hands on labs for a bunch of their different product lines. The … Continue reading

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