Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Steve Wilson does a good job at putting the Oracle benchmarketing claims into persepective. Later in his post, he touches on a few factors which are more relevant in the practical world, including power-performance ratios.
There are many aspects by which we can measure virtual-performance. I strongly agree that alternate ...
Posted in Performance, Virtualization | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Since I've been at VMware, I've tried to meet as many customers as schedules permit, to better understand performance needs. I love talking to customers, and I've managed to meet some great people so far, from 35 separate companies in two countries.
One of the questions that always comes up ...
Posted in Benchmarking, Oracle, VMware, Virtualization | No Comments »
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
It's always entertaining and revealing to look at performance statistics in the frequency domain. Since most performance anomalies are driven by some regular external event, you can often learn about what might be causing repetitive performance or response time patterns. Here's an interesting graph of the traffic to solarisinternals.com:
The traffic ...
Posted in Fun, NAS | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
One of our work-mates is getting married next week. Today he was subjected to a long-standing VMware tradition: getting married means you take a dunk in the pond!
Posted in Fun | No Comments »