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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...