…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…
NETGEAR ReadyNAS 4360X Review
…its 60-bays via three built-in SAS interfaces, which can connect to three ReadyNAS EDA2000 12-bay or EDA4000 24-bay expansion chassis. This amounts to a huge 132-bay single-node network with more…
Dell EMC Networking S4048 S-Series 10GbE Switch Review
…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…
Datrium DVX with Flash End-to-End Review
…compute nodes, along with all-flash DVX data nodes. The F12X2 data node has 16TB usable storage (12×1.92TB SSDs), with up to 32-96TB effective capacity with 2-6x data reduction and support…
Advantech SKY-8101L Overview
…AST2500 BMC Advanced Lights Out Management compliant to IPMI2.0 with security & availability enhancements iKVM SupportAdvantech Web GUI style node manager Configurable shared or dedicated NIC support Physical Dimension (WxDxH)…
StorONE All-Flash Array Review
…a box with a server (typically HA compatible and dual node) and you can just plug that into your data center. If you already have existing hardware that you want…
Docker Swarm Install on a Thin Client
…Pi B4s and one Dell Optiplex 7040. This provides an excellent base to get started. But you only need a single node to follow along with this Docker Swarm tutorial….
How it Works: Dell EMC PowerStore AppsON
…your smartphone, AppsON enables users to run certain workloads directly on the dual-node controllers of Dell EMC PowerStore. As stated, the PowerStore X is a hypervisor-enabled appliance where the OS…
Podcast #87: What’s Next for Azure Stack HCI with Cosmos Darwin
…Azure Stack HCI OS from Microsoft make a very compelling offering that in our case, saw over 4 million IOPS out of a base three-node configuration and only 15 Intel…
4th Gen AMD EPYC Review (AMD Genoa)
…and launching with the command line “start /affinity NODE 0” flag to try and force it, but were unable to lock the application to a single NUMA Node. Unable to…




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