Virtualization, Cloud, DevOps, Reviews
I have been intrigued with benchmarking recently, with several projects, both personally and professionally, in the data center and the home lab. A great benchmark solution for virtualized environments is…
I recently got my hands on a Dell Powervault ME5024 storage array with flash storage, two controllers, and 25 GbE interfaces. Since I went through the setup and configuration of…
I upgraded from my Surface Laptop 4 to a Surface Pro 11 with the Snapdragon X Elite processor and have been very satisfied so far with the performance, battery life,…
Big news coming from VMware at VMware Explore 2024. They have unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9. There are many noted features that are coming with VCF 9. Broadcom is…
I was graciously sent a review unit of the soon to be released (September 2024) Terramaster F8 SSD Plus All Flash NAS for review. I was intrigued when I saw…
If you have upgraded a VCSA appliance between versions, if you are like me, you have noticed the size of the upgrade disks that the vCenter Server Installer shows as…
Recently, I got my hands on a pair of Dell S5224f-on 25 gig switches. These were to be used for a new VMware vSphere installation for a data center refresh,…
There are a lot of times when I am working in the home lab and removing things and adding things, changing hardware, etc and you get things in a funky…
If you have built a VMware ESXi server or cluster with a datastore or multiple datastores, you may want to see if the IOPs with the datastore are what they…
There has been a lot of back and forth on Active Directory integration security with VMware lately and a really great article by Bob Plankers on Active Directory integration and…
