Apr
20
Hidden City Ticketing
Recently there has been a lot of talk around a method of saving on airfares called "Hidden City Ticketing&
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Scott Howard
Mar
30
REST API Scripting with curl
I've stated previously that using curl for accessing the XtremIO REST API (or any API!) isn't
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Dec
23
XtremIO Snapshots and Veritas Volume Manager
It's been 20 years almost to the day since I started using Veritas Volume Manager, or Sun Enterprise
5 min read
Nov
10
Using the XtremIO REST API - Part 5
In Part 1 of Using the XtremIO REST API I covered how to access the API, and how to read
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Apr
23
Parsing XtremIO CLI Output
I generally don't recommend people use the XtremIO CLI for programmatic access - it's just so
3 min read
Feb
28
Multipathing Impact on Performance
Multipathing configuration has always played a part in storage performance, and most vendors now use some form of Round Robin
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Feb
24
VMware Queue Depths and Conflicting Worlds
One of the more confusing storage-related settings in VMware is the "SchedNumReqOutstanding" setting. In versions up to and
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Feb
03
XtremIO and VMware Path Failure Detection
In XtremIO XIOS version 4.0.10 we made an (optional) change to the SCSI error codes that the array
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Jan
03
Hacking Package Pickup
Just over a week ago my apartment complex launched their new "Package Pickup Center" - an automated locker
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Dec
28
The Latency/Threads Relationship and HA Testing
One of the most common mistakes people make when testing storage is that they think they are measuring IOPS or
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