Yesterday, Episode 2 of the RoundTower “Cut the Noise” podcast was released. This podcast can be streamed from iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play and Stitcher.
Show summary: Michael Webster, Manager – Business Critical Apps Team, and Josh Odgers, Staff Solution Architect, from Nutanix join Byron Schaller and myself from RoundTower to discuss all things Home Lab, Performance and Nutanix.
- Introduction 0:00
- Josh’s Lab 1:33
- Michael’s son’s lab 2:45
- Michael’s lab 3:25
- Lab locations 7:59
- Lab Noise reduction 8:59
- Lab Power consumption 10:17
- Lab Co-location 12:10
- Byron’s lab 12:51
- Lab WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) 13:30
- Production Performance Testing with Lab 14:20
- Performance Testing Tools and Methodology 14:53
- Oracle RAC Benchmark Performance Testing 15:31
- SQL and Oracle RAC Testing 15:59
- Specific Toolsets for DB and I/O testing 16:29
- Use-case testing and benchmarks, including TPC-E, TPC-C 17:29
- Database sizes of customers 19:18
- Michael and Josh’s areas of expertise 19:53
- Adoption of All-Flash Nutanix Nodes 25:00
- Tiered Flash: SATA-SSD, NVMe, 3DXpoint 25:35
- HCI Network evolution with Tiered Flash 26:42
- Most common problems found with business critical apps 28:35
- Evolution of Nutanix Platform with VDI and Mission/Business Critical Apps 33:43
- Nutanix Business Critical Apps Team core expertise 36:20
- Nutanix Engineering responsiveness to fix issues found 37:40
- Why Nutanix started with VDI as their first use case 38:40
- Data Locality FUD 39:35
- Use cases for Acropolis Block Services 41:15
- PernixData and Calm.io acquisition 45:50
- The NPX Program 48:33
- NPX Bootcamps 49:45
- Show Close 50:50
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