Customers are often presented with the dilemma of moving file servers to NAS (CIFS shares) or virtualizing the file servers. The latter keeps the environment largely “as is” with the flexibility benefits of having servers virtualized. On the surface, the latter option can seem to have a lot of appeal, because you get to keep …
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Well as I finally recover from the six days of VMworld I can sit here and reflect on what the big announcements and new technologies from VMware. First of all, I would to thank all of the Customers, Partners and VMware Employees for attending all of Integrated Data Storage’s festivities on Tuesday and Wednesday evening—it’s …
Read more »Last month we looked at performance from a holistic high level view and the importance of assessing the stack of related components that make up performance. This month I hope to shed some light on some confusing performance counters. We will look at Microsoft Windows hosts and the performance tools and counters that we need …
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