Tag Archives: storage

VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure is the Best Stack to Back OpenStack

See why VMware vSphere with Virtual SAN delivers the best infrastructure for OpenStack environments. Continue reading

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Who needs a million IOPS for a single VM?

Microsoft tried to compare storage performance results from the upcoming Windows Hyper-V 3 with experiments from a year-old vSphere whitepaper that used completely different configurations — see what happens when similar configurations are used. Continue reading

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Microsoft Private Cloud: No CSV Allowed!

The new Microsoft private cloud “Virtual Machine Manager Self Server Portal 2” takes a major step backward, reverting to the “one VM per LUN” limitation when scripting LUN creation. Continue reading

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Register a LUN full of VMs with PowerCLI

PowerCLI makes it easy to automate vSphere tasks such as registering dormant VMs. It is also easy to create a hosts file for resolving guest IP addresses when DNS is not available. Continue reading

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These are not the files you are looking for

Red Hat claims that RHEV virtual disks are stored as common files. In reality, they are obfuscated beyond recognition thanks to LVM volumes. Continue reading

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