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    CCIE Data Center

    Officially announced recently at Cisco Live! Melbourne, the CCIE Data Center track has been long rumored. It covers a lot (UCS, Nexus 7/5/2/1K, MDS, ACE) but the first data center oriented track (CCNA/CCNP DC coming next year). Anyone going for this? I'm super stoked, I'm taking the beta...
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    Hard Drive Prices Falling Already?

    They're not quite where they were, but I've found Western Digital 2 TB (WD20EARS) around $160 at NewEgg and Amazon (they used to be $230 I believe).
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    SSD Cloning Impact on Performance?

    I had a 60 GB SSD Windows 7 boot drive that was always filling up. I used dd in Linux to clone the drive to a new 128 GB drive, and had Windows expand the volume. I was curious, so I ran some benchmarks. Given that SSDs are way faster than HDDs, I'm not too picky if my benchmarks come a...
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    Anyone using an SSD as a datastore?

    I'd like to add an SSD datastore to my home ESXi kit for booting and databases. Anyone had any experiences positive/negative with doing so?
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    SSD with OS independent garbage collection?

    So I know some SSDs can do a limited version of "TRIM without the TRIM", background garbage collection. Corsair released a new SSD that claims "advanced" garbage collection, supposedly could help with OSs that don't support TRIM and for RAID arrays...
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    Free ESXi 5.0 8 GB vRAM Limit

    As has been mentioned in other threads here, ESXi 5.0 (or vSphere 5 Hypervisor as its known) still has a free version, but it will now be limited to 8 GB of vRAM. vRAM is an allocation unit for the memory of the total number of powered up VMs running. So that means if you have a 16 GB system...
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    AES-NI and Encrypted Storage

    Intel has the AES-NI instruction set, which does hardware acceleration of AES functions. Theoretically, this should increase throughput for encrypted file systems/files/etc. It's available on the Nehalams, i5, i7s, and some others. Windows 7 should use it by default if it's there for bit...
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    FreeNAS Performance Weirdness

    So I've got a FreeNAS system I built. 3 2TB WD hard drives, AMD X2 5000+ processor, 3GB of RAM, PCIe Gigabit card. The file system is ZFS, in a RAID5ish array, with encryption. My write operations over NFS and SMB are sporadic. I get about 35 MB/s average, but looking at the network...
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    NAS Recommendations?

    NAS recommendations? I'm looking for a new NAS device, with the following: QUIET. My data center is my laundry room, it can't have jet engines for fans. At least 3 drive bays, that can handle 2 TB drives. I'm planning on doing (3) 2 TB. Supports NFS and perhaps iSCSI. I'm willing to do...
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