Apr

20

Hidden City Ticketing

Recently there has been a lot of talk around a method of saving on airfares called "Hidden City Ticketing&

Apr 20, 2018

8 min read

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

Mar 30, 2018

1 min read

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

Dec 23, 2017

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

Nov 10, 2017

4 min read

Apr

23

Parsing XtremIO CLI Output

I generally don't recommend people use the XtremIO CLI for programmatic access - it's just so

Apr 23, 2017

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

Feb 28, 2017

5 min read

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

Feb 24, 2017

4 min read

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

Feb 3, 2017

5 min read

Jan

03

Hacking Package Pickup

Just over a week ago my apartment complex launched their new "Package Pickup Center" - an automated locker

Jan 3, 2017

4 min read

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

Dec 28, 2016

10 min read