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Windows Server 2012 – Networking optimizations

25 October 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetwork tuning and offload Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2012 (DOC) Network Subsystem Performance Tuning Networking Adapter Performance Guidelines (on Windows Server 2008 R2, but still good) Specific technologies Registered I/O Networking Extensions (RIO): Microsoft site, alternative site Virtual Machine Queue (VMQ) IPsec Task Offload Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV): Overview of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), What is SR-IOV? (Scott Lowe’s Blog), PCI SIG Specifications Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V & Data Centre Bridging (DCB)

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Windows Server 2012 – Storage considerations

25 October 2012
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Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the new Windows Server 2012 there are several improvements in the storage part, expecially when we apply to a Hyper-V enviroment. The main news on the storage part, is that now is possible build a Windows Fail-Over Cluster with a shared SMB3 share and use it for store VMs (in a similar way as NFS could be use to NAS connectivity on a VMware vSphere cluster). Also a specific function (Virtual Fibre Channel) as been added to map a FC SAN LUN directly to a VM (similar to the same function in VMware vSphere). […]

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VMworld EU 2012 report: Nexenta meeting

19 October 2012
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Reading Time: 3 minutesOn last Wednesday I’ve got a meeting with some Nexenta people: Jim Ash (VP of Sales) and Jim Fitzgerald (VP of Business Development & Alliances). I’ve already meet some Nexenta guys at the last Open Storage Summit EMEA 2012 and this was the occasion to know more about their company and products. About the company, Q3 2012 was their best quarter and the grow is more people, more customers (some also with 100 PB) and more offices also in Europe (Netherland, UK, Germany and now also in Italy, at Milan). About the products they are […]

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VMworld EU 2012 report: Acronis meeting

18 October 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the last VMworld EU, on Tuesday, I met David Blackman, General Manager EMEA in Acronis and we have some talk about the company and their products. Acronis was founded in 2002 and is headquarter is in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with 18 offices worldwide (included Italy). The executive management team has two recent news: the President & CEO is Alex Pinchev (joined on Jan, 2012 from RedHat) and the  Senior Vice President of Strategy & Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) is Scott Crenshaw (joined on Sep, 2012, still from Red Hat). Both have joined Acronis to […]

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VMworld EU 2012 report: Nutanix NDA Blogger Session

17 October 2012
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Reading Time: 4 minutesDuring the last VMworld EU, on Monday, there was a NDA Blogger Session from Nutanix and I was one of the attendees. There were several people from Nutanix EMEA (Alan Campbell Regional director Sales, David Lawler Vice Presidend Marketing, Rob Tribe Regional System Engineering Manager, Jason Langore Senior corporate Account Manager, Jane Rimmer Marketing Consultant) as also other people from VMware (in the View and EUC area) and several other bloggers (include Giuseppe Guglielmetti, still from Italy). I’ve already write a couple of posts about their solution and the innovative approach of building a scalable […]

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VMworld EU 2012 report: VMware keynotes

15 October 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs already written, there were two general session at the VMworld EU (plus another only for partners on Mon afternoon): Tue 9 October, 9.00 AM The new VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger and the CTO Steve Herrod have present the news about VMware products, vision and solutions and what they mean as a software-defined datacenter. Wed 10 October, 9.00 AM Steve Herrod and VMware partners take the stage on Tuesday as they demonstrate state of the art technology that is transforming IT and enabling the mobile workforce. Honestly, apart the annonce of new products and other small […]

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VMworld EU 2012: VMware products announcements

10 October 2012
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter the announcemens at the VMworld US 2012, VMware has announce new products versions for the Q4 2012: vCloud Connector 5.1 Basic Edition (free) Advanced Edition (that include also interesting feature to move VMs and keep in sync) vCloud Automation Center 5.1 (formerly Dynamic Ops) vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 vFabric Application Director 5.0 vFabric Application Performance Manager 5.0 The main thems where related to the IT innovation, where 84% of global executives believe innovation is extremely important to their growth strategies, but 94% are unsatisfied with their innovation performance! The VMware’s approach to cloud […]

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