Hyper-V Archives page 2 of 2 – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat

May 19, 2012

How Did Microsoft and Intel Get 1 Million iSCSI IOPS?

March 19, 2010 By Stephen 1 Comment

Ever since Microsoft and Intel declared that the combination of Windows and Nehalem could deliver over a million iSCSI IOPS, I’ve been curious about just how they did it. What black magic could push that many I/Os over a single Ethernet connection? And what was on the other end? Now Intel has revealed all in a whitepaper, and the results are surprising!

Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage Tagged With: 10 gigabit Ethernet, benchmarks, CRC, CRC32C, DataCore, Ethernet, Hyper-V, Intel, IOPS, iSCSI, Microsoft, MSI-X, Nagle, Open-E, performance, QPI, RSS, SR-IOV, StarWind, TCP offload, throughput, VMDc, VMDq, VMQ, Windows Server 2008 R2, Xeon

Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits

January 7, 2010 By Stephen 6 Comments

“Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel” might sound like another “blah blah” marketing piece, but a little birdy tells me that this webcast will drop a bombshell about iSCSI performance.

Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage Tagged With: 10 GbE, 10 gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Hyper-V, Intel, iSCSI, Microsoft, performance, webcast, Windows Server 2008 R2

Iomega’s ix4-200d: A Killer Desktop Storage Array

August 27, 2009 By Stephen 51 Comments

The Iomega ix4-200d is a sleek 4-drive SOHO RAID system that does just about everything, from NAS to Time Machine to iSCSI for a list price right around $700?

Iomega is well into its second coming as EMC’s entry-level storage division. First, they applied EMC’s compact and full-featured LifeLine home storage software to existing gear, giving birth to the Home Media Network Hard Drive, StorCenter ix2, and StorCenter Pro ix4-100. Then they wooed the small-business community with the rack-mount StorCenter ix4-200r, adding iSCSI target [...]

Filed Under: Apple, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage Tagged With: AFP, Amazon.com, Drobo, EMC, Fry's, Hyper-V, Iomega, iSCSI, ix2, ix4, ix4-200d, ix4-200r, LifeLine, Maxtor, Micro Center, NAS, NFS, Retrospect, rsync, Seagate, SMB, StorCenter, StorCenter Pro, Time Machine, USB, VMware, vSphere, Western Digital, Windows Server 2008, Xen

A Concrete Reason Macs Beat PCs: Intel VT

August 7, 2009 By Stephen 13 Comments

There is a lot of FUD flowing between Apple Macintosh true believers and the rest of the PC world. This is especially true now that Macs use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA chipsets and graphics, and so much more commodity PC parts. Lots have argued that a Mac is just an expensive PC with a flashy case [...]

Filed Under: Apple, Computer History, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage Tagged With: 64-bit, AMD, AMD-V, Apple, Apple tax, Core 2 Duo, Hyper-V, Intel, Intel VT, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Outlook, Penryn, VirtualBox, virtualization, Visio, VMware, VMware Fusion, Windows 7, Windows Storage Server, Windows Vista, XP mode

PowerPath To The Virtual People

April 22, 2009 By Stephen 5 Comments

Hiding in the shadow of the huge VMware vSphere 4 announcement was a very interesting introduction by EMC: PowerPath/VE. As I mentioned in my post on storage changes in vSphere 4, PowerPath/VE plugs into the new pluggable storage architecture (PSA) found in vSphere 4 versions of ESX and takes over the decision-making and heavy-lifting tasks related to communicating with storage systems.D

Filed Under: Computer History, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage Tagged With: ATF, Chad Sakac, Chuck Hollis, CLARiiON, Conley, DMP, EMC, ESX, HDLM, HP-UX, Hyper-V, iSCSI, latency, Microsoft, MPIO, performance, PowerPath, PowerPath/VE, PVlinks, SDD, Veritas, VMware, vSphere

Sun Launches Their Own Cloud, But For Which Market?

March 19, 2009 By Stephen Leave a Comment

Sun is getting into the cloud services business, but which market is their target?

While the bulk of Sun-related news this week relates to reported talks of a buyout by IBM, the company took a break from negotiations to introduce their own cloud computing and storage infrastructure, challenging Amazon, Google, Rackspace, and perhaps VMware, Microsoft, and Nirvanix.

Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage Tagged With: Amazon, API, AWS, cloud, EC2, EMC, Google, Hyper-V, Jungle Disk, Microsoft, Mosso, Nirvanix, Rackspace, strategy, Sun, VDC, VirtualBox, VMware, WebDAV

Storage Virtualization Charlotte: Thoughts and Reactions

October 21, 2008 By Stephen 4 Comments

I’ve just finished my day in Charlotte on my Storage Virtualization Seminar tour for TechTarget. We had another great crowd – everyone seemed interested even if some were shy about speaking up. I was especially pleased to see the optimism about the city’s post-Wachovia future. Comments at the event focused on management, with my concerns [...]

Filed Under: Enterprise storage, Personal, Virtual Storage Tagged With: Agilisys, data management, deduplication, Dell, FCoE, Hyper-V, IBM, network storage, retention policies, san storage, seminar, storage area network, Storage Decisions, storage virtualization, SVC, TechTarget, thin provisioning, utilization, Virtual Iron, VMware, Xen

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Building Virtual Infrastructure, Columbus OH

May 18, 2012

We’re taking my Building Virtual Infrastructure presentation to Columbus Ohio at the end of the month. Cool! I live in Ohio, and don’t get much opportunity to speak at events here. There’s also Backup Central Live! with W. Curtis Preston the next day, if you want to go to both!

Buying a New iPad? Get the Awesome, Unlocked Verizon Model!

May 15, 2012

I’ve always loved my Wi-Fi iPad, but the Verizon LTE iPad (third-generation) is too awesome to overlook. Apart from the “retina” display and voice dictation, the killer app is unlocked roaming on just about any carrier network. Yes, you can use your Verizon iPad Verizon iPad on AT&T, Vodafone, or even Verizon!

Making Sense of Global Mobile Phone Networks

May 14, 2012

The mobile phone network landscape is incredible confusing. I pulled together the following overview to help myself make sense of it, and I thought it might benefit my readers, too.

From Kipling’s Dirigibles to the Jet Age

May 13, 2012

I don’t get much chance to read for pleasure, but two things I’ve been reading recently spurred my imagination. After reliving the advent of modern transportation in the solid non-fiction Jet Age by Sam Howe Verhovek, I stumbled upon two pieces of speculative fiction from an unlikely source that predated everything presented there.

Building Virtual Infrastructure in New York City

May 11, 2012

Even though I grew up on the other side of the great baseball divide, I have always loved going to New York City. Next week, I return again, but this time I’m bringing a whole new event to the city: This is the first time the New York audience gets to see my Building Virtual Infrastructure presentation!

Who Will Support SMB 3.0, and Which Features Will They Support?

May 7, 2012

I’m really thrilled about the improvements Microsoft is making to the core SMB protocol in Windows Server 2012. But it won’t really matter if nobody but Microsoft supports the new protocol. So I like to call out to all the enterprise storage vendors: Let me hear your support for SMB3.0!

SMB 3 is Going to be Huge, in both Scope and Impact

May 6, 2012

Microsoft is about to release the third major revision to their ubiquitous network storage protocol, SMB. Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V 3 will really highlight this technology, and I predict it will transform the way people think about networked storage for Windows systems. But SMB 3 is big in another way, too: there are tons of new features, and not all will be implemented by everyone.

What’s the Difference Between a Jailbroken and an Unlocked Phone?

May 5, 2012

If you’ve traveled much, you’ve probably run across “unlocked” mobile phones and devices. If you own an Android or iPhone smart phone, you probably also heard about “jailbreaking”. It seems like lots of people are confused about these two things, so I decided to write down a quick post explaining them.

IBM Edge2012 – Orlando

May 4, 2012

IBM has really stepped up their game this year, and they will highlight all this at their upcoming storage technology conference, Edge2012. I’m really looking forward to seeing what IBM Edge is all about, and I’ll be attending and speaking at the event in June.

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