Jun
16
Partition Alignment - Solaris (SPARC)
For historic reasons, most modern disk drives and storage storage arrays claim to the host that they have a 512
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Scott Howard
Mar
18
When Testing Tools Attack!
The nature of synthetic testing tools is that they are normally attempting to simulate some form of real-world workload, without
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Jan
08
Using the XtremIO REST API - Part 4
In Part 1 of Using the XtremIO REST API I covered how to access the API, and how to read
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Jan
07
Using the XtremIO REST API - Part 3
In Part 1 of Using the XtremIO REST API I covered how to access the API, and how to read
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Jan
06
XtremIO Snapshot Refresh
XtremIO 4.0 added the ability to refresh a snapshot from either the original source volume, or from any other
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Nov
16
OraSLOB, with ASM
Some time ago I created a VMWare OVA that simplified the installation of Oracle + SLOB, called OraSLOB. This worked well,
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Nov
12
Using the XtremIO REST API - Part 2
In Part 1 of Using the XtremIO REST API I covered how to access the API, and how to read
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Oct
26
Queue Depth, IOPS and Latency
Queue depth, or more specifically concepts like the number of outstanding IO or the number of "threads" used
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Oct
15
Using the XtremIO REST API - Part 1
XtremIO provides an extremely good “REST API” for automating configuration of the array, but the concept of a REST API
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Oct
10
Flash testing tools - SQLIO
One of the mistakes people frequently make when attempting to test a flash array is their selection of test tools.
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