David Byte, Author at SUSE Communities

April 22, 2020 12:48 pm

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VMware ESXi 6.7 + SUSE Enterprise Storage = Certified

I’m proud to be able to say that SUSE has just completed the certification process for using SUSE Enterprise Storage via iSCSI with VMware ESXi 6.7. Accompanying this certification, we have also produced and released an integration guide outlining some key settings along with some architectural decisions that need to be carefully […]

By: David Byte

April 6, 2020 5:56 pm

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Tuning the Terabytes for SUSE Enterprise Storage

One of the chief questions I frequently hear and see is, "How do I tune my SUSE Enterprise Storage cluster?" Well, now I can answer with a link to the SUSE Enterprise Storage Tuning Guide! This guide is the culmination of efforts I have been working on for more than […]

Categories: Expert Views

By: David Byte

November 19, 2019 8:17 pm

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SUSE and the IO500 @ SC19

Back in June we announced our first set of IO500 benchmarks. Since then, we’ve upgraded SUSE Enterprise Storage to version 6, which is based on Ceph Nautilus. This alone brought some performance improvements over the prior release, especially in terms of metadata and small I/O performance. Add to this the change […]

Categories: High Performance Computing, Software-defined Infrastructure

By: David Byte

August 12, 2019 1:08 pm

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How You Can Make Ceph Better

Well, here we are, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 is out the door and seeing customer deployments. Product management is happy, the engineers are relieved, and our customers continue to move forward with more advanced features, reliability, and scalability than ever before. With this successful launch behind us, it is time to ask, "[…]

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By: David Byte

June 19, 2019 4:45 am

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SUSE on the IO500 List for HPC Storage

If you haven't been hanging around the Ceph world for a bit, you may not realize that Ceph was originally intended to provide a distributed file-system to service HPC clusters. While this was the original intent, Ceph has taken a round-a-bout path to relevance in this space, especially given that we are only supporting […]

Tags: High Performance Computing (HPC)

Categories: High Performance Computing, SUSE Software-defined Storage

By: David Byte

April 1, 2019 4:21 am

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View from 30,000ft of Some SUSECON Ceph Sessions

As I sit here at 30k feet on my way to SUSECON in Nashville, I am excited about the future of SUSE and the solutions we are able to craft with partners and for our customers to consume. I'll be talking about a few of these solutions this week during the five sessions […]

By: David Byte

July 13, 2018 2:17 am

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Consumability – What Does It Mean?

Consumability, it's an odd word that I like to toss around in regard to SUSE offerings in the market. Given that it's not well defined, I thought I'd try to help you understand what I mean when I say it. Rather than being some narrowly defined term, I believe that the phrase consumability encompasses […]

Categories: Products, SUSE News

By: David Byte

February 21, 2017 4:35 pm

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Multi-PXE Install Server

I build a lot of SUSE Enterprise Storage Clusters and am always working to improve the deployment times. In the past, I setup a PXE server to handle my BIOS based x86 environment, but given that we are now in a multi-architecture environment that supports both X86_64 and ARMv8 platforms with both BIOS and EFI, […]

Tags: PXE Booting

Categories: Expert Views, Expert Views, Technical Solutions

By: David Byte

December 15, 2016 1:20 pm

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SDS Appliance? SoftIron says YES!

While at the SC16 show in Salt Lake City, SoftIron, a storage startup and SUSE partner, launched their HyperDrive storage platform. There are several aspects of their offering that on which I would like to provide comment. The first is that SoftIron bridges a gap between the proprietary storage arrays from the traditional […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Integrated Systems, SUSE Software-defined Storage, Technical Solutions

Author: David Byte

VMware ESXi 6.7 + SUSE Enterprise Storage = Certified

Tuning the Terabytes for SUSE Enterprise Storage

SUSE and the IO500 @ SC19

How You Can Make Ceph Better

SUSE on the IO500 List for HPC Storage

View from 30,000ft of Some SUSECON Ceph Sessions

Consumability – What Does It Mean?

Multi-PXE Install Server

SDS Appliance? SoftIron says YES!

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