After reading verbeieren’s blog about vscsiStats, I was very interested to see what this tool could bring me. So I started to play with it and found that I needed some extra hints to get me started. Enough for another blogpost I thought. With vscsiStats you can monitor the IO through the virtual SCSI controller […]
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Storage: How to size your LUNs?
I frequently read postings on different forums about what the best LUN size is and I thought I’d write a post about it on how I usually do it. First of all, there is no ideal LUN size that suites all environments. But I think there is a general calculation you can use to come […]
AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX
AP09 – Fast and easy disk workload characterization on ESX (Richard McDougall)  When moving an I/O insensitive workload onto ESX, you’re always asking yourself: “Will it hold? Will it perform? Is there something I can tweak to make it perform better?â€. In this session Richard showed some things to look at.  The key […]
VMworld Europe 2008 – AP03 – Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange Server ( the 16.000 mailboxes story)
VMworld Europe 2008 – AP03 – Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange Server ( the 16.000 mailboxes story) After the keynotes this was my first session of the day and I was pleasantly surprised by the high technical level. If all sessions are like this one, VMworld will be a great event for me :-) […]
ESX Storage Performance Tips
Eric Sloof found a real good article about ESX and storage performance. His site will lead you to the great document. Click here