New Home Lab Hardware – Dual Socket Xeon v4

June 22, 2016

  A new challenge - a new system for the home lab About one year ago my home lab was expanded with a third server and a fresh coat of networking. During th... Read More...

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When your Home Lab turns into a Home DC

June 4, 2015

A little bit over a year ago I decide to update my lab and build two servers. My old lab had plenty of compute power, however they were lacking bandwidth, 3 Gbi... Read More...

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DB Deepdive part 6: Query Plans, Intermediate Results, tempdb and Storage Performance

April 9, 2015

Welcome to part 6 of the Database workload characteristics series. Databases are considered to be one of the biggest I/O consumers in the virtual infrastructure... Read More...

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Database workload characteristics and their impact on storage architecture design – part 5 – Query Execution Plans

April 7, 2015

Welcome to part 5 of the Database workload characteristics series. Databases are considered to be one of the biggest I/O consumers in the virtual infrastructure... Read More...

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Part 3 – Data path is not managed as a clustered resource

March 16, 2015

Welcome to part 3 of the Virtual Datacenter scaling problems with traditional shared storage series. Last week I published an article about the FAST presentatio... Read More...

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Memory Deep Dive: NUMA and Data Locality

February 27, 2015

This is part 6 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting memory internals for large memory se... Read More...

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Memory Deep Dive: DDR4 Memory

February 25, 2015

This is part 5 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting memory internals for large memory se... Read More...

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Memory Deep Dive: Optimizing for Performance

February 20, 2015

This is part 4 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting memory internals for large memory se... Read More...

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Memory Deep Dive: Memory Subsystem Bandwidth

February 19, 2015

This is part 3 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting memory internals for large memory se... Read More...

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Memory Deep Dive: Memory Subsystem Organisation

February 18, 2015

This is part 2 of the memory deep dive. This is a series of articles that I wrote to share what I learned while documenting memory internals for large memory se... Read More...

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