
VxRail P570F Performance Benchmark
Thanks to our friends at Dell EMC, we had 4 x VxRail P570F’s in the office recently. Just to set the stage, the P-series are classed under the Performance Range of boxes and its often time what is proposed for demanding workloads.

Demystifying Stripe Width in vSAN
In traditional SAN or storage, in order to drive maximum performance from the system, many vendors deploy a concept of wide striping across many hard drive spindles within the storage sub system. So how does vSAN do it?

Looking forward to the Year of the Pig! Go vSAN!
It’s the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year today and as we head to our reunion dinners and enjoy the festivities, I’d like to take a minute to reflect on the year.

Just For Laughs - Mission Impossible Parody!
We had an internal competition recently at VMware that revolved around creating a video around a customer conversation. We decided to have some fun and created a little parody of IT, thought I would share it with you guys.

vSAN 6.7 Update 1 is Released!
We have been waiting for this release. So many exciting additions as always to the product.

Testing Performance on vSAN
When picking storage systems, it is common that many revert to performance benchmarking to differentiate between solutions.