…than one million ESXi CPU hours run and 25,000 ESXi labs published. Labs were created in AWS and Google Cloud for several VMware products such as vSphere, vCenter, NSX, VSAN,…

…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…

…SDDC stack or building their own using Hitachi’s vSAN ready node and VMware software. Modernizing the data center is putting new strains and demands on IT. Hitachi and VMware realize…

…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…

…powerful. Ideal for and intertwined with VMware environments such as VMware vSAN and vSphere, the new enhancements include the adoption of: NVMe cache drive options future-proof enhanced performance with dramatically…

…based on Dell EMC VxRail Appliances or Dell EMC VMware vSAN ReadyNodes with the option of Dell Wyse thin clients, Dell OptiPlex PCs or PCaaS as the endpoint. Now these…

…it can do some really productive work as well. For instance, this sub $100 Raspberry Pi build can be used as a VMware vSAN witness in a two-node HCI cluster….

…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…

…our updated sysbench testing configuration was promising; we were able to double Sysbench performance to 600TPS per node, with excellent transactional balance between each node. There were some latency spikes,…