Tag Archives: performance

Ask Good Questions

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jon Owings

This happened a long time ago. I arrived at a customer site to install View Desktop Manager (may have been version 2). This was before any cool VDI sizing tools like Liquidware Labs. I am installing ESX and VDM I … Continue reading →

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iSCSI Connections on EqualLogic PS Series

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Jon Owings

Equallogic PS Series Design Considerations VMware vSphere introduces support for multipathing for iSCSI. Equallogic released a recommended configuration for using MPIO with iSCSI.   I have a few observations after working with MPIO and iSCSI. The main lesson is know the … Continue reading →

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New VMware KB – zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Jon Owings

Due to the performance hit while zeroing mentioned in the Thin Provisioning Performance white paper this article in the VMware knowledge base could be of some good use. I would suggest using eagerzeroedthick for any high IO tier 1 type … Continue reading →

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