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DMX Virtual Provisioning, like everything else has good + bad parts

  • March 22nd, 2010
  • Posted in DMX . EMC . Performance . Virtual Provisioning . WLA

I really like DMX VP (aka thin provisioning), it’s great in the automatic wide striping, overcommit, etc but at the same time there are a number of things you need to be aware of that will annoy you.   VP is great in that I don’t really need to think  (care) as much anymore, those iops are wonderfully spread [ READ MORE ]

VMWare + Java + overcommitment= sad… + SSD = ?

  • March 21st, 2010
  • Posted in DMX . EMC . SSD . Storage . VMWare . Virtualization

We are doing a overall of our core customer systems… unfortunately the developers have no idea as to what they are actually going to need.  They have us configuring bunches and bunches of VM guests with 8GB of ram in them to run Java.  Our VMWare guys dutifully looked at vmware memory commit rates on [ READ MORE ]

Went to the Oracle/Sun “this is what we are are event”

  • March 18th, 2010
  • Posted in Oracle . Sun

And what I found was a big ball of crap.  I tried very hard to simply avoid the whole thing; but I was told by someone higher than me that “you ARE going”.. so a colleague and I drove to the Dearborn Hyatt with probably about 100-150 other people to get the usual song and [ READ MORE ]

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This is a blog for those of us hanging out in Enterprise techland... Storage, Virtualization, Unix. Lately I've tended to fall mainly with storage (primarily EMC/NetApp), a bit of virtualization (primarily VMWare) and Unix (primarily Linux with history in Irix/Solaris).
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