One of the methods for increasing density in the virtual workload space that is common today is deduplication. It is possible to dedupe any computing storage resource as the process simply scans for identical blocks and then stores only one… Continue Reading
There are a few different options when it comes time to set up your virtual storage backing within the KVM environment. Your options are: No cache Direct sync Writethrough Writeback Let’s take a look at what we get with each.… Continue Reading
In the world of virtualization, a decently long pedigree and strong support are king. There is an old saying that nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco. The hypervisor equivalent would probably be either Hyper-V or VMWare. So is there… Continue Reading
Since the most powerful machine that I own is my storage server, I thought it prudent to leverage its capabilities by running alternate operating systems to provide the services that I use. FreeBSD is awesome in that it is a… Continue Reading