…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…

…Scalable processors with VMware vSAN and vSphere software. The first of the upgrades to come online is access to VMware‘s Project Dimension beta. The Project Dimension beta is available immediately and is…