vSphere Metro Storage Cluster solutions and PDL's?
Yesterday I wrote about HP/Lefthand joining the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster program. Today I want to inform you about something that I believe is rather important when implementing stretched cluster...
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New vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Whitepapers now published
Hi all, A quick post today to let you know that VMware has just published some new performance whitepapers on the vSphere Storage Appliance. The performance evaluations were carried out by Principled...
View ArticleHA split brain, which VM prevails?
By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect. I received a question on twitter last week around HA split brain scenarios. Let me give an example first of when a split brain scenario could occur: Isolation...
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A closer look at the View Composer API for Array Integration [incl. Video]
A week or so ago I published an article about new View 5.1 storage features. I followed this up with a short video post explaining how you would go about using View Storage Accelerator. In this...
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Tighter Integration between EMC VNX Storage and VMware vCenter Operations...
Posted byJoseph DieckhansSr. Technical Marketing Manager This week I’m out at EMC World 2012, and wanted to let you know of an exciting new announcement that EMC has made. EMC announced this week...
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NFS Block Sizes, Transfer Sizes & Locking
Posted by Cormac HoganTechnical Marketing Architect (Storage) I've had a few questions recently around the I/O characteristics of VMware's NFS implementation. I'm going to use this post to answer the...
View ArticlevSphere Metro Storage Cluster white paper released!
A brand new white paper was just published. This white paper was written by Lee Dilworth, Ken Werneburg, Frank Denneman, Stuart Hardman and I. It is a white paper on vSphere Metro Storage Cluster...
View ArticleSDRS maintenance mode impossible because "The virtual machine is pinned to a...
By Frank Denneman, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect When using virtual machines that have disks set to snapshot independent and are placed in a datastore cluster, attempting to enter SDRS maintenance...
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vCLI + ESXCLI Authentication Options
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing EngineerDid you know the vCLI (includes ESXCLI) offers several different authentication options? This is actually not a very well known fact and I thought I...
View ArticleMem.MinFreePct sliding scale function
One of the cool “under the hood” improvements vSphere 5 offers is the sliding scale function of the Mem.MinFreePct. Before diving into the sliding scale function, let’s take a look at the...
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Introduction to the vSphere API Part 3 - Inventory Hierarchy
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Introduction to the vSphere API Part 1: Overview Introduction to the vSphere API Part 2: Object Model In Part 2 of the series, we took a look at the...
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Oldies, but goodies - Site Recovery Manager Setup Videos
I recently stumbled across a bunch of recordings that I made for the VMware KBTV channel some time ago. If you are looking for a short overview on how to configure SRM with some different storage...
View ArticleHA / Distributed vSwitch problems after Storage vMotion scripts available
Most of you have read about this issue by now where it is impossible for vSphere 5.0 HA to fail-over a virtual machine which has been SvMotioned and is connected to a distributed vSwitch. Both William...
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Host Profile: Syslog.global.logDir doesn’t match the specified criteria
Posted by Kyle Gleed, 30 May 2012 I recently received a call from a co-worker having problems getting his hosts to comply with a host profile he had created. He mentioned that when he first created...
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Troubleshooting Storage Performance in vSphere – Part 1 - The Basics
I frequently present at the various VMware User Group (VMUG) meetings, VMworld and partner conferences. If you have ever attended one of my talks, you will know it is like trying to drink from a fire...
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vSphere 5.0 U1 now supports routed NFS storage access
I have to admit, I missed this in the release notes when we initially brought out 5.0U1. But it is rather neat that we now support routing NFS traffic. There are some caveats however. From the release...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide Released
I would like to announce the official release of the vSphere 5.0 Security Hardening Guide. The guide has been posted to the VMware Communities in the "Security and Compliance” area, in the Documents...
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Host Profile: Syslog.global.logDirUnique Option Missing
I recently posted about a tricky syntax issue when setting Syslog.global.logDir using a host profile. In that post I also recommended that anytime you setup a shared logging datastore that you always...
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Using A Guest Customization Script to Tell When vApp/VM Is Ready In vCloud...
By William Lam, Sr. Technical Marketing EngineerA question that has comes up from time to time for vCloud Director is how to tell when a vApp and its associated Virtual Machines is ready for use after...
View ArticleVMware vSphere v5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification
This new certification has generated a lot of interest around the industry. Below is a blog entry from my colleague at VMware (link #1 below) and our press release as well (link #2 below). Let us know...
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