Example Architectural Decision – Virtual Switch Load Balancing Policy
Problem Statement What is the most suitable network adapter load balancing policy to be configured on the vSwitch & dvSwitch/es where 10Gb adapters are being used for dvSwitches and 1Gb for vSwitch...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Network I/O Control Shares/Limits for ESXi...
Problem Statement With 10GB connections becoming the norm, ESXi hosts will generally have less physical connections than in the past where 1Gb was generally used, but more bandwidth per connection (and...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Jumbo Frames with IP Storage (Use Jumbo Frames)
Problem Statement When using IP based storage over a converged 10GB network, should Jumbo Frames be used? Requirements 1. Fully Supported storage 2. Maximum vSphere environment availability 3. Maximize...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Jumbo Frames for IP Storage (Do not use...
Problem Statement When using IP based storage over a converged 10GB network, should Jumbo Frames be used? Requirements 1. Fully Supported storage 2. Maximum vSphere environment availability 3. Maximize...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – VMware DRS automation level for a Nutanix...
Problem Statement What is the most suitable DRS automation level and migration threshold for a vSphere cluster running on Nutanix? Requirements 1. Ensure optimal performance for Business Critical...
View ArticleVMware Host Isolation Response in a Nutanix Environment #NoSAN
I was recently discussing the Nutanix solution with a friend of mine and fellow VCDX, Michael Webster (@vcdxnz001) and he asked what the recommended Host Isolation Response is for Nutanix. At this...
View ArticlevBrownbag – vForum Sydney 2013 – View Composer for Array Integration (VCAI)
Recently I presented a short vBrownbag on the topic of View Composer for Array Integration (VCAI) with a focus on how VCAI benefits Horizon View environments, Storage Protocol choice for Horizon View...
View ArticleBug Life: vSphere 6.0 Network I/O Control & Custom Network Resource Pools
In a previous post How to configure Network I/O Control (NIOC) for Nutanix (or any IP Storage) I showed just how easy configuring NIOC is back in the vSphere 5.x days. In was based around the concepts...
View ArticleMetro Availability Witness Failure Scenario 1 – Site 1 Failure
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View ArticleMetro Availability Witness Failure Scenario 5 – Complete Network outage Site 1
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View ArticleMetro Availability Witness Failure Scenario 6 – Complete Network outage Site 2
Related Posts Failure Scenario 1 – Site 1 Failure Failure Scenario 2 – Site 2 Failure Failure Scenario 3 – Network Partition Failure Scenario 4 – Witness Failure Failure Scenario 5 – Network Outage...
View ArticleMetro Availability Witness Failure Scenario 7 – Complete Network outage
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View ArticleWhat’s .NEXT 2016 – PRISM integrated Network configuration for AHV
As I have previously discussed, AHV is the next generation hypervisor and brings similar value as traditional hypervisors with much improved management performance/resiliency while being easier to...
View ArticleRead I/O Path Comparison – Nutanix vs VMware vSAN
In this series we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as...
View ArticleNetwork Usage Comparison Part 1 – Nutanix ADSF vs VMware vSAN / DellEMC VxRAIL
In this series we’ve learned Nutanix provides more usable Capacity along with greater capacity efficiency, flexibility, resiliency and performance when using Deduplication & Compression as well as...
View ArticleData Locality Comparison – Nutanix AOS vs the competition – Part 1
From Day 1, Nutanix AOS was designed and built to be a truly distributed storage fabric where data integrity, consistency, scalability & resiliency were and remain top priorities. As part of this...
View ArticleThink Data Locality is just about Storage Performance? Think again!
Despite Nutanix competitors desperately grasping at straws to try and convince themselves and customers that Data locality doesn’t matter, the fact remains that unnecessary use of any resource...
View ArticlePublic Cloud Challenges – VMware VMConAWS vs Nutanix Clusters – INDEX
Conceptual the benefits of Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions being deployed on bare metal hardware in public clouds makes a a lot of sense from a time to value, scalability and simplicity...
View ArticleNutanix NC2 on AWS EC2 – Performance & Scalability advantages – Part 1
Public Cloud provides like AWS with their EC2 offering provide a ton of value for customers and support a wide range of workloads which is why many customers are investigating these offerings and/or...
View ArticleExample Architectural Decision – Jumbo Frames for IP Storage (Do not use...
Problem Statement When using IP based storage over a converged 10GB network, should Jumbo Frames be used? Requirements 1. Fully Supported storage 2. Maximum vSphere environment availability 3. Maximize...
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