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Using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Nutanix Cluster.
Using a small python script we can liberate data from the “Analysis” page of prism element and send it to…
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Viewing Nutanix cluster metrics in prometheus/grafana
Using Nutanix API with prometheus push-gateway. Many customers would like to view their cluster metrics alongside existing performance data using…
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Effects of CPU topology on sqlserver guests with AHV.
VM CPU Topology The topology (layout) that AHV presents virtual Sockets/CPU to the guest operating system will usually be different…
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Beware of tiny working-set-sizes when testing storage performance.
I was recently asked to investigate why Nutanix storage was not as fast as a competing solution in a PoC…
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Comparing RDS and Nutanix Cluster performance with HammerDB
tl;dr In a recent experiment using Amazon RDS instance and a VM running in an on-prem Nutanix cluster, both using…
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AOS 6.1 Improvements for Day-2 database operations.
AOS 6.1 greatly improved database performance on Nutanix especially when the guest VM uses just a single disk for all…
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How to performance test Nutanix on AWS with X-ray
End to End Creation of a Nutanix Cluster on AWS and Running X-Ray
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Install a bitnami image to Nutanix AHV cluster.
One of the nice things about using public cloud is the ability to use pre-canned application virtual appliances created by…
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X-Ray scenario to demonstrate Nutanix ILM behavior.
Specifically a customer wanted to see how performance changes (and how quickly) as data moves from HDD to SSD automatically…
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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 4)
What happens when power is lost to all nodes of a HCI Cluster? Ever wondered what happens when all power…
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The return of misaligned IO
We have started seeing misaligned partitions on Linux guests runnning certain HDFS distributions. How these partitions became mis-aligned is a…
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Creating compressible data with fio.
Today I used fio to create some compressible data to test on my Nutanix nodes. I ended up using the…
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SATA on Nutanix. Some experimental data.
The question of why Nutanix uses SATA drive comes up sometimes, especially from customers who have experienced very poor performance using…
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Designing a scaleout storage platform.
I was speaking to one of our developers the other day, and he pointed me to the following paper: SEDA:…