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virtualTodd's Big Blog: November 2012
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012. What I Did Last Summer or SAP HANA on VMware vSphere Performance Testing. The stuff that I have been working on for most of this year was made public in a press release. Just before the Thanksgiving break a couple of weeks ago. SAP's HANA database. An in-memory high performance wonder, has been officially blessed to run on VMware vSphere 5.1 for test and development by SAP. I wrote the official VMware blog that was posted. Friday, November 2, 2012. Star Wars and Donunts.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: Intro to CPU Ready Time in ESXTOP
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Thursday, February 5, 2015. Intro to CPU Ready Time in ESXTOP. This week in our So Say SMEs episode we have a quick discussion about the CPU Ready time performance counter in esxtop. This has been covered by some other great blogs. And esxtop performance guides. Here we have a quick intro conversation and also talk about the Super Bowl - because we have to talk about the Super Bowl. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enjoy The Run Journey. Running on Isla Mujeres Again. There was an error in this gadget.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: March 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013. Cloud Bracket Busters AWS and Hybrid Cloud. On this week's episode of So Say SMEs, Kong and I discuss the new announcement from VMware of a Hybrid Cloud service in the spirit of March Madness. Notice the cool circuit board design on the wall behind us - anybody know where we filmed this episode? Sunday, March 10, 2013. Performance Perception In The Cloud. But when we discuss running applications in the "cloud" the aspects of performance that are important change. Even though a...
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: So Say SMEs and CoStop Performance Counter
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Friday, February 13, 2015. So Say SMEs and CoStop Performance Counter. This week on So Say SMEs, Kong. And I discuss what the costop or %costop performance counter means and how you can use it to resolve performance issues on your vSphere / ESXi environment. You can view costop in esxtop on the main CPU screen that comes up by default. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enjoy The Run Journey. Running on Isla Mujeres Again. There was an error in this gadget. So Say SMEs Cover CMDs/Sec.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: Let The TPC-VMS Benchmark Wars Begin
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Friday, September 6, 2013. Let The TPC-VMS Benchmark Wars Begin. In the benchmark world, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (aka TPC) has long been the owners of the premier performance benchmark. I'm referring to the TPC-C database performance benchmark where millions have been spent to prove performance excellence. This means that the HP and VMware vSphere solution has the "Leadership" position for the TPC-VMS benchmark - as of right now. What happens next will be interesting. Flash Cache a...
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: April 2013
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Friday, April 26, 2013. Vote for Half of The Tong Show. In this week's So Say SMEs aka the Tong Show, we talked about VMworld 2013 Session Public Voting. My sessions up for vote this year are 5591 Big Data: Virtualized SAP HANA Performance, Scalability and Best Practices and 5517 Performance In The Cloud Doesn't Matter. Easiest way to find them is to just go to the voting site. And filter on my last name - Muirhead. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Enjoy The Run Journey. Running on Isla Mujeres Again.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: February 2015
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. So Say SMEs Cover CMDs/Sec. Our performance counter of the week is a key storage related metric - CMDs/Sec. This is part of our new effort to cover a a new performance counter every week - along with a little bit of other virtualization and cloud stuff as needed. We secretly hope to make you all esxtop performance experts. Friday, February 13, 2015. So Say SMEs and CoStop Performance Counter. This week on So Say SMEs, Kong. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Enjoy The Run Journey.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: September 2013
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Flash Cache at Chuy's. As Kong continues his job search we found a place that was hiring for this week's episode of So Say SMEs. Chuy's is of course the perfect place to discuss the new vSphere Flash Read Cache feature aka vFRC. I decided to wear a vintage work shirt this week - from a company that no longer exists. Anybody remember Altiris? Friday, September 6, 2013. Let The TPC-VMS Benchmark Wars Begin. What happens next will be interesting. It is also of course possible th...
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: August 2013
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Monday, August 26, 2013. ESXTOP in The Hands On Labs At VMworld 2013. The labs are currently only available onsite at VMworld, but will be made available through the public Hands on Labs portal. At some point after the conference ends. So if you couldn't make it to VMworld this year - don't despair, you will be able to get to the new labs in the future. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Enjoy The Run Journey. Running on Isla Mujeres Again. Presentations From Type1Now Conference Available.
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virtualTodd's Big Blog: So Say SMEs Returns for Third Season
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. So Say SMEs Returns for Third Season. Kong and I have returned for a third season of So Say SMEs. We have a few changes for season 3, but we will continue to talk cloud and virtualization with some geek and sports talk too. In terms of changes - Kong has moved over to SolarWinds and we going to focus a bit more on performance when we get the chance. My voice is still not 100% in this video, but that is a story for another day! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).