Example Architectural Decision – Storage I/O control for IaaS solutions
Problem Statement In vSphere clusters servicing IaaS or Cloud workloads where customers or departments have the ability to self provision virtual machines with varying storage I/O requirements, how can...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Securing vMotion & Fault Tolerance Traffic...
Problem Statement vMotion and Fault tolerance logging traffic is unencrypted and anyone with access to the same VLAN/network could potentially view and/or compromise this traffic. How can the...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Datastore (LUN) and Virtual Disk Provisioning
Problem Statement In a vSphere environment, What is the most suitable disk provisioning type to use for the LUN and the virtual machines to ensure minimum storage overhead and optimal performance?...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Performance – CPU Ready
I have had feedback that navigation of my blog to find past posts is difficult, so I am aiming to solve this by creating new sections which will hopefully help with navigation. This section is...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Datastore (LUN) Sizing with Block Based Storage
Problem Statement In a vSphere environment, What is the most suitable Datastore (LUN) sizing to use for to support both production & development workloads to ensure minimum storage overhead and...
View ArticleData Locality & Why is important for vSphere DRS clusters
I have had a lot of people reach out to me since VMworld SFO, where I was interviewed by Eric Sloof (@esloof) on VMworldTV (interview can be seen here) about Nutanix. So I thought I would expand on the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Swap File Location & Capacity Usage on Nutanix
The Location of the Virtual Machine swap file can be critical when deploying vSphere with traditional centralized storage solutions, or legacy solutions which acknowledge “zeros” or “White-space” as...
View ArticleNutanix Tech Notes for VMware vSphere
I thought I would put together a single page which has links to all the current Nutanix Tech Notes relating to VMware vSphere as well as have a bit of a teaser list of upcoming documents. This will be...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exchange on Nutanix Best Practice Guide
I am pleased to announce that the Best Practice guide for Microsoft Exchange on Nutanix is released and can be found here. For me deploying MS Exchange on Nutanix with vSphere combines best of breed...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) Configuration...
Problem Statement In a VMware vSphere environment, with future releases of ESXi disabling Transparent Page Sharing by default, what is the most suitable TPS configuration for an environment running...
View ArticleNutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) Intelligent VM Load Balancing at Power On
I thought I would share a quick demonstration showing how Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) load balances VMs at power on to ensure optimal performance. This is just one of the many seemingly simple...
View ArticleWhat’s .NEXT 2016 – Acropolis X-Fit
Now that Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) has been GA for approx 18 months (with many customers using it in production well before official GA), Nutanix has had a lot of positive feedback about its ease of...
View ArticleThe All-Flash Array (AFA) is Obsolete!
Over the last few years, I’ve had numerous customers ask about how Nutanix can support bare metal workloads. Up until recently, I haven’t had an answer the customers have wanted to hear. As a result,...
View ArticleSQL & Exchange performance in a Virtual Machine
The below is something I see far to often: An SQL or Exchange virtual machine using a single LSI Logic SAS virtual SCSI controller. What is even worse is a virtual machine using a single LSI controller...
View ArticleSplitting SQL datafiles across multiple VMDKs for optimal VM performance
After recently helping multiple customers resolve performance issues with vBCA workloads by configuring multiple PVSCSI adapters and spreading workloads across multiple VMDKs, I wrote: SQL and Exchange...
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