9000 MTU AKA Jumbo Frames – Yey or Nay?
Is this risk still worth the reward? A lot of products out there still give you an option to set your preferred MTU size. In the past, when 1GB was…
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August 30, 2021
VMworld 2021 – My Personal Top 10 Sessions
As much as I would love to attend an in-person conference this year, we get to enjoy VMworld from the comforts of our own home again. Even though I am…
August 27, 2021
Pure FlashBlade and Windows Servers – Maximum TCP Ports
Do you have a high performance NAS, but are not getting the throughput that you expected on Windows Servers? Have you checked to make sure that your TCP default timeout…
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August 26, 2021
Nutanix ROBO 2-Node Cluster Install
This week I configured my first Nutanix 2-node cluster and I wanted to share my personal experience during the process. First of all, I have deployed much bigger clusters in…
August 23, 2021
VMware vSphere ESXi – Virtual Machine Best Practices
I feel like this is a beat up topic, but it honestly is my one of my favorites sessions every year during VMworld (SQL best practices to be more precise,…
August 17, 2021
Pure Storage FlashArray – Is your bandwidth balanced?
After my last post, I felt like this follow up was necessary! Are you the Storage Admin and you do not have access to the VMware environment (wait, whut?!)? Or…
August 10, 2021
VMware ESXi Round Robin Path Selection with Pure Storage
Are you a VMware shop and you are currently using Pure Storage? In case you missed their best practices guide, I wanted to provide you with a simple command to…
August 9, 2021
Nutanix Nodes – Initial Configuration in non-flat network
Do you have a complex network (IPv6 disabled, IGMP snooping disabled, etc) and you do not want to make the required changes for the node auto-discovery to be seamless? Not…
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August 5, 2021
Nutanix and Redhat Partnership
If you embrace the devops approach, this is exciting news for you! Nutanix and Redhat are establishing a partnership to improve their relationship and support for each other's products. Simple,…
August 4, 2021
VMware – HCX 4.1 Bulk Migrations
Are you ready to learn about workload portability to any cloud with HCX? Is your datacenter hardware getting older and support cost sky rocketing? Would you would prefer to spend…
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July 28, 2021