Running ScaleIO in the HomeDC

In this Post, I will describe how I have come about in deploying a ScaleIO Software-Defined Storage in the Home Datacenter. Over the course of 2016, I have upgraded my clusters from VMware Virtual SAN Hybrid (Flash for Caching Tier and SAS Enterprise disks for...

Nexenta stats running sample VMware Data Recovery backup

Following my Nexenta storage for the vLab article. I was asked how my ARC and L2ARC where doing. Here are two more screenshots that I just took on my infrastructure, while doing the initial backup of a 40GB virtual machine with VMware Data Recovery. I had the Nexenta...

Nexenta storage for the vLab

In this post, I will describe the storage design I use for my virtual infrastructure lab. I have been using the Community Edition of NexentaStor for the past two and a half year already. And I can tell already in the first paragraph of this post, that it’s a...