Server Virtualization

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 …

Interesting VDI facts

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 …