The lab has been running out of memory with all the new requirements for VCF 9.1 services cluster, so it’s time for an upgrade!I was tossing around a few options for the upgrade, I’ll detail below: Buy more DDR4 Memory – lol, it’s way too expensiveIntel Optane DC-PMM – These Optane SSD modules plug into…
Most of the Holodeck environments I deploy are on NFS primary storage. The Synology device I have requires an additional ESX driver to enable the hardware acceleration features when using NFS.To streamline the deployment I’ve created a custom ESX image with the driver baked-in so I don’t have to roll it out after a deployment….
In a previous post I did some benchmarking of NFS storage in a holodeck environment. The performance gains over a nested vSAN environment were significant, so others may want to run this for their testing. The automated holodeck provisioning is fantastic for vSAN OSA/ESA deployment but at the time of writing we do not have…
Running a nested test lab is fantastic for convenience and cost savings. The down side is that performance tends to suffer.With VCF Holodeck we have a couple of storage options, and in this post I plan to compare benchmarks. These numbers will not be good, but I’m aiming to determine which is the least shitty…
When I was purchasing SSDs for my Home Lab, there wasn’t a lot of useful benchmarks out there for my use-case. I started out with the cheapest, they are all the same right? Wrong. My main use-case is nested VMware Cloud Foundation which is already very resource intensive, but hammers the storage due to the…