NVMe
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Storage
Terramaster F8 SSD Plus Review: All Flash NAS with NVMe
I was graciously sent a review unit of the soon to be released (September 2024) Terramaster F8 SSD Plus All Flash NAS for review. I was intrigued when I saw the specs for the unit as it has some great…
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Proxmox
Proxmox add disk storage space – NVMe drive
Proxmox and NVMe storage is a great combination for the home lab or production environments. NVMe drives have gotten extremely inexpensive and you can buy large drives for low cost. However, how do you add an NVMe drive to Proxmox…
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Backup Software
NVMe-oF RAID Data Protection in StarWind Backup Appliance
As organizations look to protect their data, backups are the core central component of any good disaster recovery strategy. However, while having backups is critical, they have to be restored to realize their value. Long, drawn-out recovery times can devastate…
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Backup Software
StarWind Backup Appliance (BA) with NVMe Storage performance
Data backups are the most crucial part of any disaster recovery plan and are essential to recovering data to your environment after a disaster or ransomware attack. Needless to say, the faster your backups can take place, businesses are in…
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home lab
Create Samsung NVMe SSD RMA Return Request Online
As I had recorded in a previous blog post, I had a Samsung EVO 960 cache drive fail in my home lab VMware vSAN cluster.ย Since the drive was still well within warranty, I wanted to see if I could…
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vSAN
Replacing VMware vSAN Cache Disk and Resyncing vSAN Objects
In the previous post, VMware vSAN Home Lab Hardware Failure and Resiliency, I covered my first hardware failure in my vSAN home lab environment. The environment has been up and running now for around a year on an all flash,…
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home lab
VMware LSI SAS vs PVSCSI vs NVMe Controller Performance
With all of the different variations of virtual controllers now available in VMware, I wanted to perform a simple test of disk performance benchmarks when using all three controllers on the same virtual machine to see if the controllers performed…
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vSphere 6.5
Change Paravirtual to NVMe virtual storage controller in vSphere 6.5
With each new release of vSphere we have had storage performance improvements. The virtual storage controllers that are presented to a virtual machine can impact the performance of those VMs greatly. New to vSphere 6.5, we have the availability of…
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home lab
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home Lab
Recently, I made some welcomed additions to my lab environment (more to come), and one of these was the addition of a Samsung 960 EVOย M.2 1TB NVMe in VMware Home Lab. ย I had high expectations of this drive and the…