September 2017 - NielsHagoort.com

Why we chose vSAN for our business critical apps

September 26, 20171 Comment

Looking at the IT infrastructure at several production sites within my customer's organization, we quickly noticed IT infrastructure components (mainly compute and storage related) that were not up to par…

Distributed Storage Network Topology

September 18, 2017No Comments

This is a short write-up about why you should consider a certain network topology when adopting scale-out storage technologies in a multi-rack environment. Without going into too much detail, I…

VXLAN Offloading Support

September 4, 2017No Comments

Modern physical NICs (pNIC) have several offloading capabilities. If you are running VMware NSX, which is using VXLAN, you could benefit from the VXLAN offloading feature. Using VXLAN offloading allows…