…Management with iDRAC Final Thoughts It’s a bit premature to say every VMware vSphere or vSAN node should be configured with DPUs to take advantage of the vSphere Distributed Services…

VMware‘s VSAN group recently announced a free storage performance testing tool for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), the HCI benchmark or HCIbench. While stressing traditional arrays with I/O or bandwidth tests is…

…Database Threads: 32 RAM Buffer: 24GB Dell PowerEdge R730 Virtualized Sysbench 4-node Cluster Eight Intel E5-2690 v3 CPUs for 249GHz in cluster (Two per node, 2.6GHz, 12-cores, 30MB Cache) 1TB…

…node 128GB to 512GB of memory per node VMware Virtual SAN configuration option 1:  1 x 400 GB SSD with 3 x 1.2 TB HDD per node 1.6 TB SSD…

Today VMware Inc launched the latest version of their software-defined storage solution, Virtual SAN 6 (VSAN). VMware Virtual SAN 6 has significant scalability and performance enhancements including new all-flash configuration support….

…platform certified as a VMware vSAN Ready Node and offers up to 20% better TCO per four-node cluster for vSAN deployments at the edge. With 128 PCIe lanes, it offers…

…R630 makes for an excellent node in software-defined deployments ranging from vSAN to ScaleIO. While diminutive in rack footprint, don’t let the R630 fool you; it’s a full-fledged dual-socket PowerEdge…

…includes many of the hyper-converged solutions on the market where some, like the Dell EMC VxRack Node, can require upwards of four 10G connections per node. The Dell EMC S4048-ON (and its…

…the EMC VxRack Node powered by ScaleIO, putting the all-flash array to work in 2-layer SAN configuration. This testing however is a little bit different. In the VxRack Node review we…