Hello everyone, I just got to work on a daisy chain unified setup with Dell Powervault MD 1200, it was an interesting experience,so I thought to blog it. Configuration Compute : 3 x Dell Poweredge R720 with dual Perc H810 HBA cards . Storage : 4 x Dell Powervault MD1200 with dual Enclosure Management Modules (EMM),…… Continue reading Walkthrough – Dell Powervault MD 1200
Switch Embedded Teaming to replace the traditional NIC Teaming for Hyper-V
Today I tested a very nice feature available with Windows Server 2016, called Switch Embeddded Teaming (SET), so I thought to blog this. Before (With Windows Server 2012 R2) Windows Server 2012 introduced the support for RDMA NICs for higher throughput by utilizing the full capabilities of SMB 3.0 including SMB direct and SMB multichannel…… Continue reading Switch Embedded Teaming to replace the traditional NIC Teaming for Hyper-V
Storage Performance benchmarking
When it comes to designing a storage solution for your compute cluster, the main areas to consider are capacity and performance benchmarking. Performance benchmarking should be done at both storage level and at network level. At storage level, we deal primarily with what is known as IOPS – Read IOPS and write IOPS. Storage Level – RAID…… Continue reading Storage Performance benchmarking
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