Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: SSD SAN
Running a VM from a RAM Disk
Posted by on January 26, 2010
I posted earlier about some of my experiments with the FusionIO solid state storage card, SSD’s and the feature I spotted in Starwind to create a virtual disk from RAM – these are the quick results I see when running a Windows 2003 R2 virtual machine from a RAM disk. This is done by [...]
Comparing the I/O Performance of 2 or more Virtual Machines SSD, SATA & IOmeter
Posted by on November 19, 2009
I’m currently doing some work on SSD storage and virtual machines so I need an easy way of comparing I/O performance between a couple of virtual machines, each backed onto different types of storage. I normally use IOmeter for this kind of work but generally only in a standalone manner – i.e I can [...]
Solid Sate SAN, Storage vMotion and VMWare – HSM for your VMs
Posted by on May 13, 2008
You’ve been able to buy solid state SAN technology like the Tera-RAMSAN from TMS which gives you up to 1Tb of storage, presented over 4Gb/s fibre channel or Infiniband @10Gb/s… with the cost of flash storage dropping its going to soon fall in to the realms of affordability (from memory a year ago 1Tb [...]
