Preliminary Results With Live Migration Over RDMA Speed & Useful Number Of NICs

Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can leverage SMB to do Live Migrations. That means we can now offload the process to the NIC if they support RDMA, save on CPU cycles and potentially get VMs moves a … Continue reading

An Early Look At Live Migration Over TCP/IP & Multichannel In Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview

Introduction With Windows Server 2012 R2 (Preview) we can Live Migrations over TCP/IP like before. That’s either using a single NIC or by teaming two or more NICs. We also have compression and Multichannel. In this blog post we’ll play … Continue reading

Teamed NIC Live Migrations Between Two Hosts In Windows Server 2012 Do Use All Members

Introduction Between this blog NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 Brings Simple, Affordable Traffic Reliability and Load Balancing to your Cloud Workloads which states “TCP/IP can recover from missing or out-of-order packets. However, out-of-order packets seriously impact the throughput of … Continue reading

DELL PowerEdge VRTX Has Potential Beyond ROBO As a Scale Out File Server Building Block

The PowerEdge VRTX I went to have a chat with Dell at TechEd 2013 Europe in Madrid. The VRTX was launched during DELL Enterprise Forum early June 2013 this concept packs a punch and I encourage you to go look … Continue reading