VMware vCenter Webservices service chewing up all your memory?

Oh yeah… we all have testbeds and we all love to waste the extra memory we have in them…uhm…wait, no I don’t!

I’m going to be applying this tonight to my own vCenter lab environment…that poor PC just dies with all the memory/disk swapping it is doing.

http://deinoscloud.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/tomcat-for-vcenter-memory-tuning/

Enterprise SSD market to soar

We’ve definitely been noticing an uptick in SSD interest and I feel this is one of those transformational technologies…you know, the kind that are like shaking the etch-a-sketch.  SSD not only is the cheapest $ per IO it also offers DRAMATICALLY faster response time.  Imagine taking your “fast” 15,000 RPM SAS disk with a 3-5ms (or more in most cases) response time and knocking that down to something in the MICRO-second level…access that disk a few million times a day…yeah…that’s a big difference.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176075/Enterprise_SSDs_to_soar_through_2015?taxonomyId=19

If you want to dive deeper on this topic email me dan.brinkmann@lewan.com , this is a transformational technology!