Posted on February 11th, 2012
by Bill Kleyman |
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Planning and sizing an environment are extremely important steps when working with virtualization or VDI. Too often administrators overlook the importance of correctly sizing vital pieces of an environment – storage controllers for example. In these cases, serious performance issues will arise and the end-user experience will quickly experience degradation.
In the latest article we examine storage controller sizing and best practices. This latest article examines the importance of a good storage sizing methodology and how to plan out your controller.
Steve Gilmore is a guest contributor for this article!
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Bill Kleyman
Virtualization Solutions Architect
MTM Technologies
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Citrix, EMC, NetApp, SAN, Sizing, storage, VDI, Virtualization
Posted on February 6th, 2012
by Bill Kleyman |
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The Windows Server 2008 platform is a diverse operating system capable of fitting into numerous different kinds of environments. The diversity of the product comes in 7 different edition forms capable of expansion and meeting the needs of a given organization.
Administrators know that Server 2008 is a great OS, but which OS version should they be working with? Oftentimes this question is coupled with the following: which hardware platform to I use? So, this latest article explores the various versions of Server 2008 and the options around deploying it on a specific type of hardware platform.
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Bill Kleyman
Virtualization Solutions Architect
MTM Technologies
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Cisco UCS, server management, Virtualization, Windows Server
Posted on February 3rd, 2012
by Bill Kleyman |
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Having clear visibility into a virtualized datacenter can mean the difference between wasted resources and effective workload management. The challenge for IT administrators is to manage and to utilize computing resources that span the entire environment, often including physical, virtual and cloud resources.
Almost all of today’s data center environments have or will have some form of virtualization deployed. This demands additional considerations when deploying a virtualized physical platform. In this article, I discuss resource planning and issue mitigation as means of optimizing resource use.
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Bill Kleyman
Virtualization Solutions Architect
MTM Technologies
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Posted in Virtualization |
Tags: Tags: Citrix, Datacenter Management, performance monitor, Virtualization, Windows, XenServer
