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NVME over TCP
I’ve wanted to test out NVME over TCP as a datastore from an ESXi host for some time. You may say “But Kenyon the Linux NVME implementation doesn’t support fused commands.” And you’d be right at one point I went through the configuration of an NVME target via the nvmet-cli tools. While this works for…
ESXi VM Power On Delay
Ran into something odd the other day. I was observing a 30 second power on delay for VMs on an ESXi host. I messed with it for a few weeks, dug through logs, and opened a VMware SR. Got nothing from all of the normal avenues. After the ticket was open for a good week…
TCP/UDP vs ICMP Latency
A while ago I wrote a post about ICMP latency: https://vskeeball.com/2021/09/14/ping-is-not-a-real-latency-measurement/. While we all conceptually understand this I recently helped build a testing framework to show a few types of tests running from AVS to Azure Native. Actually seeing the data brought home the points from the last post. These tests were all run one…
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