This occurred to me when looking at our Hadoop servers today, lots of our devs use IOWait as an indicator of IO performance but there are better measures. IOWait is a CPU metric, measuring the percent of time the CPU is idle, but waiting for an I/O to »
While migrating an automated VM deployment page using a combination of Sinatra on Linux and Bash scripts using the Perl toolkit with a simpler script using the VMWare PowerCLI that I love so much I needed to create a windows service from the Sinatra App »
Well, 2010 was a great year - thanks to all the great people who made it so. Just a brief outline: Work: Started the year down in Kent working on a XenApp deployment on VMware at the beginning of the year, then over in Dubai building a VMware View solution »
I realised when auditing my delicious bookmarks recently how much I rely on Wikipedia to look things up and today donated for the first time. I had previously moaned about seeing Jimmy Wales’s face every time I logged in, like this and laughed my »
I remembered seeing Simon Long’s comment on twitter a few weeks ago and it was rattling around in the back of my mind. Will #VMware Load-Based Teaming remove the need for #Cisco EtherChannel? Discuss…. I long ago investigated NIC Teaming algorithms »
We recently bought the Hyper9 capacity planning, reporting and monitoring solution for our VMware infrastructure and I quite soon made use of it to troubleshoot some problems reported to us like backups taking longer and databases being slower than normal »