January 7, 2009 – vBrownBag

Storage Planning – IO Domains

Posted on January 7, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

IO Domains – What are they? Why use them?

Today I wanted to introduce the concept of IO domains for your storage planning. IO Domains are just that, areas or domains, separated by either policy, performance, or both.

First lets take a look at some of the potential problems and pitfalls they’ll help you avoid:

VMFS Corruption
Redundancy
Performance
Flexibility

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Interpreting esxtop Stats

Posted on January 7, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Not sure where I got the link to this document, but have found it insanely useful, and should very well be committed to memory! (Yes, it’s that good). Table of Contents Section 1. Introduction Section 2. CPU Section 2.1 Worlds and Groups Section 2.2 Global Statistics Section 2.3 World Statistics Section 3. Memory Section 3.1[…]