VMworld 2014/vExpert Game Show
vExpert Game Show
Presented on Monday
Fun and entertaining presentation
Between the VMware vExperts and Pure Storage team
Twitter: #vExpertGameShow
Sample Questions:
SLC vs MLC, which is more expensive: SLC
Average i/o size of Pure's install base: 56KB (think ioBlender)
VSAN Fault Tolerance default: FTT=1, should do FTT=2
Name of returned by inquery command (NAA ID, vendor, mode, etc): VPD (Virtual Product Data)
Flash Reduce - data technologies: inline pattern removal, inline 512 byte dedup, inline compression, copy reduction, post process deep reduction
VSAN RAID 0 vs Pass Through: Pass Through is recommended
Fiber channel topologies: loop, fabric, point to point
Does Pure Storage support VMFS shrinking?: No, able to resize, but not shrink
VSAN read cache to write buffer default in flash accel layer: 70% read to 30% write
RAID 4 vs RAID 5: RAID 5 has distributed parity
VAAI block primities (purity OE 4.0): xcopy, ats, block zero, block unmap
VSAN stripe size: 1MB
First 5 1/2" HDD: Segate 5MB in 1980