Greg Schulz's Blog – March 2015 Archive (9)

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking and Performance Resources

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The following are a list of various articles, tips, post and other resources about server storage I/O performance benchmarking for legacy, virtual, cloud and software defined environments along with associated tools.…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:43 — No Comments

Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd

Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I)

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This is part-one of a two-part post pertaining Microsoft Diskspd.that is also part of a broader…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:36 — No Comments

Server and Storage I/O Benchmarking 101 for Smarties

Server Storage I/O Benchmarking 101 for Smarties or dummies

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This is the first of a series of posts and links to resources on server storage I/O performance and benchmarking (view more and follow-up posts…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 3:29 — No Comments

VMware announces vSphere V6 and associated virtualization technologies

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VMware has announced version 6 (V6) of its software defined data center (SDDC) server virtualization hypervisor called vSphere aka ESXi. In addition to a new version of its software defined server hypervisor along with companion software defined management and convergence…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:53 — No Comments

Testing your HDD, SSD or all flash array (AFA) storage primer

How to test your HDD, SSD or all flash array (AFA) storage fundamentals

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Over at BizTech Magazine I have a new article4 Ways to Performance-Test Your New HDD or SSDthat provides a quick guide to verifying or learning what the speed characteristic of your new storage device are capable of.…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:44 — No Comments

If you are focused only on cost you might miss other cloud storage benefits

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If you are focused only on cost you might miss other cloud storage benefits

Drew Robb (@robbdrew) has a good piece (e.g. article) over at InfoStor titled Eight Ways to Avoid Cloud Storage Pricing Surprises that…

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Gathering Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB

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Gathering Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB

When using benchmark or workload generation tools such as HammerDB I needed a way to capture and log performance activity metrics such as transactions per minute. For example using HammerDB to simulate an application making database requests performing various transactions as part of testing an overall system solution including server and storage I/O activity. This…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:28 — No Comments

Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements

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Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently among other enhancements announced new Simple Storage Service (…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:17 — No Comments

Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

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Data Protection Diaries: Are your restores ready for World Backup Day 2015?

This is part of an ongoing data protection diaries series of post about, well, data protection and what I'm doing pertaining to World Backup Day 2015.

In case you forgot or did not know, World Backup Day is…

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Added by Greg Schulz on March 27, 2015 at 2:10 — No Comments