Dallas Data Center

Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade.  The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]

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Virtualization is generating a lot of buzz in IT circles these days because it promises to dramatically change the way many companies manage and operate their IT infrastructure. Virtualization is a broad term that covers the creation of virtual computing resources—such as storage, the network, or even an entire machine. For example, using virtualization you [...]

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Today’s business can’t afford to be down. If you have a web presence, your business is on 24/7. If you don’t treat your infrastructure as if you are open around the clock, you could be losing opportunity. Many people think that in order to get HA (High Availability) in their hardware that they have to [...]

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IT professionals know that server disks fragment. As server disks fragment, the performance and file access can slow down. Most administrators just set a schedule to defrag the server when usage is low and keep moving. Virtualization has brought another problem into the mix. We can defrag our virtual machines, but what about the host [...]

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