1 min read 0 Nutanix AOS 6.1 Improvements for Day-2 database operations. gary March 8, 2022 AOS 6.1 greatly improved database performance on Nutanix especially when the guest VM uses just a single disk for all…
1 min read 0 Nutanix How to measure database scaling & density on Nutanix HCI platform. gary March 27, 2020 How can database density be measured? How does database performance behave as more DBs are consolidated? What impact does running…
1 min read 0 Database Performance HammerDB: Avoiding bottlenecks in client. gary October 4, 2019 How to avoid bottlenecks in the client generator when measuring database performance with HammerDB
4 min read 0 Database Performance How to run vertica vioperf tool gary September 6, 2019 The vertica vioperf tool is used to determine whether the storage you are planning on using is fast enough to…
2 min read 0 Postgres Nutanix View from Nutanix storage during Postgres DB benchmark gary June 28, 2019 Following on from the previous [1] [2] experiments with Postgres & pgbench. A quick look at how the workload is…
1 min read 0 Postgres Benchmarking with Postgres PT2 gary June 28, 2019 In this example we run pgbench with a scale factor of 1000 which equates to a database size of around…
2 min read 0 Postgres Benchmarking with Postgres PT1 gary June 28, 2019 In this example, we use Postgres and the pgbench workload generator to drive some load in a virtual machine. Assume…
2 min read 0 Nutanix Install a bitnami image to Nutanix AHV cluster. gary June 28, 2019 One of the nice things about using public cloud is the ability to use pre-canned application virtual appliances created by…
5 min read 0 X-Ray HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 3) gary September 17, 2018 Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads HCI deployments are typically multi-tennant and often different nodes will…