Data Centre Migration Strategies – Part 1 – Overview
After a recent twitter discussion, I felt a Data Centre migration strategies would be a good blog series to help people understand what the options are, along with the Pros and Cons of each strategy....
View ArticleData Centre Migration Strategies – Part 2 – Lift and Shift
Continuing on from Data Centre Migration Strategies Part 1 – Overview, Part 2 focuses on the “Lift and Shift” method. I’m sure your reading this and already thinking, “this is the least interesting...
View ArticleCompetition Example Architectural Decision Entry 2 – Use of RDMs in Standard...
Name: Chris Jones Title: Virtualization Architect Twitter: @cpjones44 Profile: VCP5 / VCAP5-DCD Problem Statement VMs require more than 1.9TB in a single disk. The existing virtual environment has LUNs...
View ArticleThe All-Flash Array (AFA) is Obsolete!
Over the last few years, I’ve had numerous customers ask about how Nutanix can support bare metal workloads. Up until recently, I haven’t had an answer the customers have wanted to hear. As a result,...
View ArticleDare2Compare Part 7 : HPE provides superior performance to Nutanix
In part 4, we covered off a series of failure scenarios and how the HPE/SVT product responds and the same scenarios and how Nutanix responds which clearly proved HPEs claim of having superior...
View ArticleIt’s 2017, let’s review Thick vs Thin Provisioning
For a long time, it has been widely considered that thick provisioning is required to achieve maximum storage performance and for many years this was a good rule of thumb. Before we get into details,...
View ArticleNutanix Scalability – Part 5 – Scaling Storage Performance for Physical Machines
Part 3 and Part 4 has taught us that Nutanix provides excellent scalability for Virtual Machines and provides ABS and Volume Group Load Balancer (VG LB) for niche workloads which may require more...
View ArticleIT Infrastructure Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) – Corona...
Back in 2014, I wrote about Hardware support contracts & why 24×7 4 hour onsite should no longer be required. For those of you who haven’t read the article, I recommend doing so prior to reading...
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