Bays for days: Intel S2600CP2J meets Supermicro 24-bay SC846
A quest for more drive bays comes to an end with an affordable, redundant, hot-swappable solution from Supermicro. Check out this Intel/Supermicro hybrid!
RAID Levels – Spans, Stripes, IOPS, Oh My!
“What RAID level should I use?” “Raid 10 is better than RAID 5.” These are all common discussion topics but the truth is that there is more to it than that! Check out this benchmark test showing the strengths and weaknesses of each configuration!
How to add enough storage to not care anymore (with no down time)!
In this blog entry we add 8 WD Red 4TB disks to an ESXi server, extending its usable space to 21.x TB without any downtime at all!
How does disk performance really affect VMs?
Part 1 Most people know that SSDs are fast with high IOPS and mechanical disks are slower, offering less speed per unit and lower IOPS, but a better cost per TB. Most “high end” enthusiast SSDs (read: consumer) these days will offer 400+ MB/s and at least 70k IOPS at medium queue depths. Mechanical disks might only offer 75 – 140 IOPS per disk and 100 – 125 MB/s transfer. However, we also know that we can...
Lenovo TS140 as ESXi and NAS box – with a twist!
This is “Part I” – as a sort of “Part II” I’ve upgraded this server some – click this link to read more about that, otherwise continue on! Hey everyone – so for Christmas this year I wanted to build a low power ESXi box but with a lot storage preferably. The Lenovo TS140 was on sale at NewEgg on their eBay store and included the Intel Xeon E3-1225v3 (3.2GHz quad-core) with 4GB of RAM,...
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I am a Sr. Systems Engineer by profession and am interested in all aspects of technology. I am most interested in virtualization, storage, and enterprise hardware. I am also interested in leveraging public and private cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and vRealize Automation/vCloud Director. When not working with technology I enjoy building high performance cars and dabbling with photography. Thanks for checking out my blog! 
