Tag Archive: Performance

Is your network playing nice?

Get stuck with odd performance in your iSCSI SAN? Try the obvious!

Linux: Configure “bridge at boot” for NIC(s) in Fedora 13

Sometimes, for instance when having a limited number of Network Interface Cards (NICs) on a system that will be used for a Linux hosted platform virtualization solution (and you’re running Fedora 13), the easiest approach to giving each of the guests “direct” access to a network is to configure the physical devices as bridges on…

Linux: Using multipath to improve performance for your iSCSI array

Configuring Fedora 13 for Device Mapper Multipath with an EqualLogic PS series RAID array

Fedora 13: Multi-NIC and IP traffic problems

Problems with getting all devices to accept IP traffic in multi-homed network configurations (in the same subnet) without using the Linux bonding driver?

Can PeeCees (PC) ever be used for mission critical workloads?

Heresy! I think PCs are ready to host truly mission-critical workloads today…

Scaling up your virtualization solution on 8-socket HP ProLiant Servers

Some of the things we’ve learned while testing the KVM based virtualization solution in RHEL 5.4 on an 8-socket HP ProLiant server.

Getting ready for an industry conference

I wound up with more work on my plate this week in order to get ready for a large conference this summer where I need to talk about scalability, performance and virtualization of large scale-up platforms.