My public speaking experience
It can be a bit of a hassle; working on cool projects as a contractor and finding the time to take days off to visit and/or present at a VMworld,…
FREE vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive E-Book
In June of this year, Frank and I published the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive, and the community was buzzing. Twitter exploded, and many community members provided rave reviews. This excitement caught Rubriks attention,…
TCP Segmentation Offload in ESXi explained
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) is the equivalent to TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) but more modeled to virtual environments, where TOE is the actual NIC vendor hardware enhancement. It is also…
Virtual Networking: Poll-mode vs Interrupt
The VMkernel is relying on the physical device, the pNIC in this case, to generate interrupts to process network I/O. This traditional style of I/O processing incurs additional delays on…
Why we chose vSAN for our business critical apps
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
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…