Recent content by chilliblast

You guys are awesome - thanks for the info, that graphing screenshot above is very interesting and very useful. In terms of 10GbE SFP based switches, what would you guys recommend that won't break the bank? I was looking today and noticed that Mellanox do a SFP based switch that looks very well...

Thanks lopoetve, what kind of infrastructure do you have in place if you don't mind me asking? :-) I need to do some further testing I think! CoW - I am worried about latency across the gigabit links, if something starts churning away that throughput it will push latency up, at least with 10GbE...

You'd hope so but there is still the requirement for enforced reservations, I totally agree with you that is against the whole point of virtualizations but it is what it is unfortunately (which makes it more expensive). Why is round robin across multiple paths with controlled IO rates...

Hey guys Sorry for the delay, work is crazy this week. The issue with reducing hosts is one of resource reservations, the VMs that will be hosted are not your usual VM's with relaxed resource requirements (when I say relaxed I mean no enforced reservations at a per VM level) - they WILL have...

That looks pretty good! Have you used one in production yourself? What do you think to the performance / features / management compared to the spec sheets online? Thanks

Hey guys Much appreciate your input thanks! 5000 iops is not sustained apologies that would be peak / burst more than likely around half that figure maybe slightly less at a constant purr. I was using 150-200 as a general guide for IOPs for a 10k disk plus the SSDs. Budget is approximately...

Hi all I'm looking for some second opinions on a solution idea I am putting together. Essentially I have a need to host the following VMs: 14 x Windows VMs 3 of which are running SQL Server 10 x Linux VMs mostly network orientated rather than IO 1 x Physical backup server via local...