Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
A couple of years back, I sponsored a set of projects to look at how NFS could be used for databases. Some of the previous work that showed how NFS can be used for databases is covered here. One of the more research-oriented projects was one which we implemented an ...
Posted in NAS, Oracle | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Hats off to Eric Kustarz, who has just integrated FileBench into OpenSolaris.
FileBench is a flexible, configurable workload-driven benchmark for file systems -- it more accurately measures the performance of a real application. It uses a modeling language to emulate the application's footprint. For example, if a workload is attribute intensive ...
Posted in Benchmarking, Solaris, VMware | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I just got back from vForum in Australia -- it's always great fun getting home for business.
I did a talk on how performance management roles and techniques change in a virtualized world. I also spent some time talking about the performance of large enterprise applications within virtualization, including Exchange (I'll ...
Posted in VMware, Virtualization | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I have an exciting new role at VMware.
Plenty to say thanks for while at Sun -- cool projects (like Solaris Internals, Solaris Performance and Tools, developing the community around Solaris Performance, MemTool, fun with Niagara and CMT) and working with many great people in PAE and the Solaris ...
Posted in VMware, Work | No Comments »