Author Archives: Gabriel

XIV Gen3 SPC-2 Results Posted

Nate over at TechOpsGuys brought my attention to the SPC-2 results from the Gen3 XIV. The results are what I would expect from the Gen 3 system, and SPC-2 benchmarks do play up on the strengths of the XIV architecture. … Continue reading

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Testing IO with ESXi 4.1 and XIV Storage

I have wanted to run some tests of disparate virtual workloads on our vSphere 4.1 clusters focused on storage IO, latency and bandwidth today. The setup: 5 ESXi 4.1 Enterprise Plus Hosts 3 IBM 3690 X5 with 128GB RAM and … Continue reading

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vSphere 5 Released to the masses

Long awaited for us lowly plebes who don’t get access to the beta or pre-release images, the official release can be snagged here. Also nice to see that they are releasing e-book reader formats for documentation.

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