Storage – Geek and I

Kubernetes VMware vSphere infrastructure – Phase 2

By mike August 10, 2023 August 11, 2023 0 Networking, Software, Technology, Virtualware kubernetes, Storage, Terraform, VMware, vSphere

Use Terraform to deploy virtual machines that will then be used to deploy a Kubernetes cluster.

And the new storage is…

By mike March 22, 2012 June 29, 2013 0 Hardware, Opinions ipHouse, Storage, VMware, vSphere

I won’t play coy and string you along. I will just expound on my reasons in my choice for our new storage then give you the answer you have waited for.

Benchmarking storage results, part 2

By mike March 15, 2012 June 29, 2013 0 Hardware, Opinions, Software, Techie ipHouse, Storage, VMware, vSphere

This report is where I describe the hardware and guest operating systems in a different format and include the output from bonnie++ and Postmark. I opted to skip the Iometer benchmarks because then this post would just be multiple screenshots or I would need to parse it all into graphs.

Benchmarking storage results, part 1

By mike March 13, 2012 June 29, 2013 2 Hardware, Opinions, Software, Techie ipHouse, Storage, VMware, vSphere

Does it perform within the parameters set (see below)? Can I measure objectively? What changed parameters caused differences in expected output? Are all features included or must I make a compromise? Is it easy to manage? Can I expect someone else to manage this? Does it fit with my long-term goals? Can it scale with my needs? Is there anybody out there?

Storage benchmarking hardware list

By mike March 9, 2012 1 Hardware, Software, Techie, Virtualware ESXi, FreeBSD, ipHouse, Linux, Servers, Storage, VMware, vSphere

So here I am in my office at ipHouse finishing up the last runs of benchmarking reviewing my posts I have already done for Tegile’s Zebi and Tintri T540 appliances. I still need to finish one for Nexsan but won’t have time until later this weekend to complete it.

As I am getting closer to posting the actual results I wanted to share the storage and testing configurations now instead of including all of this in the results posting.