Not just another Storage weblog
After 5 years in SAN storage industry with a virtualization focus, I recently shifted gears to just virtualization in the context of servers, storage, and infrastructure. This has been an eye opening experience, the most enlightening part of this re-focus has been the incredible efforts that Cisco has put into the engineering of the Cisco …
Day 2 of BriForum has enlightened me even further on why VDI has not penetrated the nearly as fast or deeply into end user environments. The appear to be two main causes that have either cause implementations to stall of fail in the marketplace and while both have technical aspects, one also political issues the …
This week I am attending BriForum. BriForum is a technical conference that draws attendees worldwide for a focus on application and desktop virtualization. This is eight time that this conference has taken place and is the brain child of blogger Brian Madden (www.brianmadden.com). The day started early at 7am with breakfast and a high energy …
Most of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) sizing and performance papers found from the virtualization companies and storage companies state that for sizing purposes a range of 5-20 I/O per seconds (IOPs) should be used. Using this range as ESG Labs did in their Lab report on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN – Optimizing Virtual Desktop …