Tag: SSD

Building a Haswell ESXi Server for VSAN

Building a Haswell ESXi Server for VSAN

For a few years I've been occasionally posting home ESXi "server " builds. The last one I did was for SandyBridge. I have two such hosts, and they've been working really well. But after attending VMworld this year in San Francisco and hearing about all the VSAN goodness, I'm going...

San Diego VMUG: The Power of Server Side Caching

This was a good session presented by Proximal Data, focusing on using flash-based cache in your VMware environment. They have a product called AutoCache that boosts storage performance for VMware environments. Sounds like an interesting product. Session went by very fast, but here are some of the notes I took:...