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Written by Scott Herold
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
The idea of green computing has generated a lot of interest in quite a few organizations. The marketing money that VMware has been throwing at it is actually quite impressive. A quick trip to VMware's website, and one can easily see that green computing is a primary focus for them. Anyone who has been out to their Palo Alto location knows that they spent a lot of money building an entirely energy efficient 5-building campus...and it is a beautiful campus at that. I've done quite a bit of research in this area, and one of the disturbing trends that I have seen is that "Green Computing" or "Lower Power Consumption" is extremely low on everyone's virtualization priority list.
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Written by Scott Herold
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
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Those that attended VMworld Europe in Cannes this last year and stopped by the Vizioncore booth were treated to more than simply being able to watch George Pradel at his peak. They got to see, first hand, the new Vizioncore vCharter Pro. I know what you are thinking..."Pro" means a few features were added and a few bugs were taken care of that users have been complaining about for months. Well, if that is what you are thinking, you actually couldn't be more wrong. | | This item includes 1 comment |
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Sunday, 30 March 2008 |
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Most intelligent men would not state this, but I was fortunate enough to have my wife spending a week in Spain visitng her sister. This allowed me to pull a few late nighters and not only finish racking and cabling all the servers, but also custom cut and run all network cables (those that I could unplug for now anyways). To top if all off, I even got all 5 of my PE 1435's configured with various hypervisors. | | This item includes 2 comments |
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
After reviewing a comment on my previous post from Erik Bussink I decided to better test my iSCSI solution as I wasn't overly satisfied with what I was seeing. I ran a few rounds of one of my favorite basic I/O write tests #dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.log bs=1024k count=1000. This command showed my that my throughput absolutely sucked on this relatively beefy system. I was pushing only about 15-17 MB/Sec on a controller and drives that should be able to perform significantly better than that.
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Wednesday, 19 March 2008 |
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I was able to finally build my iSCSI server a while back and wanted to highlight some of the details of this particular system. I wanted to try to do something unique with this configuration that would help to support a higher-end workload than a typical server. | | This item includes 5 comments |
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