Category: Data Center

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Data Center / Reviews

CPU Core Limit in Oracle Database: Best Solution for Dummies

When you have no right sizing, when you have no control what be happened on database and when you didn’t any optimization, limiting using resources by database or any other system will necessary to help server to keep working without hang. Oracle Database be able to use all processing resources on a server and other process will be dead or hang if they couldn’t receive enough time for processing. CPU is the most important component and resource on any computer system, so if you want to stable system then the needed resources should be measured by right sizing or limiting some processes to delivering minimal resources to other processes.

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Data Storage / News

Major Update For DELL EMC Unity/Unity XT OE (5.2.0.0.5.173)

EMC has released new OE (5.2.0.0.5.173) for Unity/Unity XT storage array family with new major changes. The new release also contains lots of resolved issues for different components. The biggest changes are “Data Reduction and Advanced Deduplication” can now be enabled for hybrid storage pools and also dynamic pools will be expanded faster than before.

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Data Storage / Data Center / Reviews

Parallel NFS (pNFS) – Part 1 (Introduction)

Parallel NFS (pNFS) is a part of the NFS v4.1 standard that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel. The pNFS architecture eliminates the scalability and performance issues associated with NFS servers deployed today. This is achieved by the separation of data and metadata, and moving the metadata server out of the data path.

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Reviews / Data Center / Data Storage

Ceph Storage Platform: Best Alternatives in 2022

Ceph is most popular software-defined storage platform and offers Objec-Storage, Block Device and File System (CephFS) for storing data in modern data centers or public and private clouds. Best and popular solutions needs alternatives as well. So at this post, we’ll review some alternatives for Ceph.

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Desktop Virtualization

Windows OS Optimization Tool for VMware Horizon

Windows OS Optimization Tools was a VMware’s Fling and this free tool has been productized now. Windows “OS Optimization Tool For VMware Horizon” will be official Horizon’s components from VMware Horizon 2111. What’s Windows OS Optimization Tool for VMware Horizon? The Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon makes it easy to apply configuration settings to desktops and servers. It includes settings to optimize the following Windows operating systems for both desktops and servers that reside in the data center and in the cloud: Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 The Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon optimizes virtual desktops and RDSH servers for Horizon, and Horizon Cloud. Notes: The Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon is not compatible with Windows 7, 8.1, Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, and Server 2016. An older version of the OS Optimization Tool (b1130) is available to download from the VMware Flings site to use on these OS versions. The optimization information in this guide does not pertain to Windows XP or Windows 7, which Microsoft no longer supports. For more information, see the Windows XP Deployment Guide. The Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon helps with three key steps in this process: Optimize...

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Data Storage

EMC Unity Host Group, Finally Came!

EMC Unity array was released in 2016 to replace VNX and VNXe family with another mid-range array solution. EMC Unity came with lots of new features and enhancements compare to older families but there was an absent feature that VNX offering. Host access method was changed and each LUN should have been present to each host separately. More than 4 years from GA release, we were waiting for changing host access method because presenting LUN to each host was horrible in large scale environment with many hosts and LUNs. Biggest Change In EMC Unity OE 5.1.0.0.5.394 Previous versions have “Consistency Group” with some limits to present a LUN or more than one LUN to group of hosts. EMC Unity OE 5.1.0.0.5.394 including new feature that the new feature is like VNX Storage Group. The new feature called “Host Group“. You could assign or present multiple LUN to multiple hosts in OE version 5.0 and later but Host Group is the feature that we want. In Dell EMC Unity OE version 5.1 users can logically group hosts and block resources within a host group. Host groups can be created and managed from the Host Groups tab and help to streamline host/resource...

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Data Center / Data Storage / Virtualization

Unity XT Metro Node (1st/2nd Generation): Protect Your Data and Applications from Disaster

Unity XT storage arrays are designed for performance, optimized for efficiency and built to work in multi-cloud environment. Actually Unity XT storage array is mid-range storage array family but this family is capable for enterprise workloads. Enterprise businesses needs protection and needs business continuity solutions. Typically, mid-range storage array has no native business continuity solution but Unity XT offers Unity XT Metro Node as business continuity solution.

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Data Center

Cloud Native Server Processors

Each workload needs to proper processor for processing, some workloads need to more cores and threads and some workloads need to more power. Today, Data Centers are changing and workloads as well. Applications are moving to Cloud Native platforms and virtualization needs more density instead of processing power. Arm (Advanced RISC Machines) is going popular for cloud workloads and server products because ….

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Desktop Virtualization / How To

Connection (Session) Duration Report: Best Solution for VMware Horizon View 7.x or Newer

VMware Horizon View provides solutions for remote working and access to business from anywhere. Users be able to use virtual desktop or applications via secure and fast display protocols such as PCoIP or VMware Blast. VMware did support monitoring VMware Horizon View via vRealize Operations (vROps) for Horizon but recent versions are not supported. You have to use third-party software or services such as ControlUp or develop your solutions.

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News / Operating System

Rocky Linux, The Rightful Successor to CentOS

CentOS born from nothing and was everything for some businesses but Red Hat deposed him from the kingdom. I have published a post about CentOS Replacement Candidates and Rocky Linux was one of candidates. Rocky Linux was under development by Rocky community and release candidate version of Rocky Linux was released on April 30, 2021.

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Cloud Native Architecture

VMware Photon OS – Best OS for Kubernetes and Container Host

During virtualization revolution, IT administrators was be able to use single physical host as virtualization host and providing compute resource for multiple services. Now IT world is going forward and companies moving their services to Cloud-Native Application or Container. Compared known Virtualization and OS Level Virtualization, using less storage capacity is the biggest benefit of OS Level Virtualization or Containerization. Most known Hypervisors are not made for OS Level Virtualization and Containerization needs Container Host. Container Host can be a known Operating System such as Linux distributions. There are some OS has specially made for Containerization such as VMware Photon OS.

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Reviews / Automation

Ansible UI – Ansible Semaphore

Ansible is one of most popular IT automation systems but if you want to have User Interface for Ansible, you have few options. Red Hat offers Ansible Tower as an enterprise edition of Ansible which includes an UI. Ansible Tower (AWX Project) is available as community edition but some version may be released with minimum of tests. There is another Open-Source project that you can use it, Ansible Semaphore.