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Review QNAP TS-459Pro II

Sander Martijn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:19:40 +0000

Recently QNAP gave us the opportunity to review their QNAP TS-459Pro II NAS solution. We gladly accepted this opportunity and we got the NAS shipped to us a few weeks ago. The TS-459Pro II is a NAS device that is aiming at the SMB market. QNAP also has bigger versions in the TS line that [...]

by Sander Martijn

Why can’t I run your OS on my virtual box, Steve?

Alex Muetstege — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:13:11 +0000

Ever since I’ve been working on a Apple Classic II, many many years ago, I was caught by the way of thinking at Cupertino. Design combined with functionality was actually possible! Well, back then we thought it was beautiful, anyway Now, many years have gone by, a lot of people in the world seem to [...]

by Alex Muetstege

EMC Isilon 15PB Storage system

Erik Scholten — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:25:08 +0000

EMC has announced a new storage system called Isilon 108NL. The Isilon storage system consists of 36 disk 4U nodes which can be joined together to create a 144 node storage system with a capacity of 15 PB. It’s a scale-out storage system where each node contains its own 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps interfaces [...]

by Erik Scholten

Can we beat Kasparov with a single virtual machine?

Erik Scholten — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:58:52 +0000

14 years ago, on May 11, 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue II chess-computer won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer achieving 11.38 GFLOPS running 30 parallel RS/6000 SP Thin P2SC-based system nodes, with each node [...]

by Erik Scholten

Should the VDI world watch out for the new VDI solution by Oracle?

Alex Muetstege — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:00:47 +0000

Last Friday I attended a VDI presentation from an Oracle (formally Sun) reseller on the brand new Oracle VDI solution. First of all, the audience was very different from the ‘usual virtualization’ crowd. A lot of former Sun enthusiasts, who have a very different view on solutions. This article is from my viewpoint. Not all [...]

by Alex Muetstege

HP StorageWorks IO Accelerator

Erik Scholten — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:41:47 +0000

In May 2010 HP introduced the new HP Storageworks IO Accelerator modules for HP Blade and ProLiant servers. So what is this IO module. It is a mezzanine card that is available for HP C-class Blades or a PCI-e I/O card for HP ProLiant servers. It is available in three different capacities: 80GB, 160GB and [...]

by Erik Scholten

New Digi AnywhereUSB hub

Sander Martijn — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:17:49 +0000

At the client site that I’m currently working they are using these USB anywhere hubs from Digi. These USB hubs give you the ability to use USB on virtual machines over a TCP/IP connection. Each USB hub can service one virtual machine and holds up to 4 USB ports. The down side of these USB [...]

by Sander Martijn

Bad network performance on new ESX host (part 2)

Sander Martijn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:53:49 +0000

Some weeks ago I posted an article about some bad network performance when moving VMs to a new ESX host. Last week I got an e-mail which announced some updates and among it was the one promised to us by the engineer that helped us with our problem. Description of the patch is exactly what we where [...]

by Sander Martijn

Bad network performance on new ESX host

Sander Martijn — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:42 +0000

At a client site we came upon a problem with Windows 2003 VM’s. They would get low network performance when we moved them to a newly formed ESX cluster consisting of HP 460c G6 blades. In some cases logging on to the server with a remote session took about 20 minutes. As I mentioned this [...]

by Sander Martijn

Dell EqualLogic 2010-2011 product roadmap

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:10:11 +0000

We recently received an update about the new stuff that is coming from Dell EqualLogic. Because a lot the information was under NDA so I can’t go into details or give you release dates. What’s here already? Last year Dell released the 10GB connections for the PS series. This 10GB connection speeds are mostly done [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga