VASA - API for Storage Awareness
Nice article by Bernd on the value of our new VASA API released with vSphere 5. Have a read at http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/blog/?p=12695 I love the title too! -Mike
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vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Resilience - Network Outage Scenario #2:...
In a previous post, I demonstrated what would happen in a vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Cluster if we lost the back-end (cluster communication/replication) network. In this post, I want to look at...
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vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) - Useful Links [Updated]
[Updated with new blog references - 23-Sep-2011] Last week, the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) was officially launched by VMware. This is VMware's low cost, easy to install, shared storage solution...
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Storage DRS Affinity & Anti-Affinity Rules
By now you should be well aware that one of the major storage and resource management enhancements in vSphere 5.0 is Storage DRS. What was one of the motivations behind developing this feature? For...
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Storage I/O Control Enhancements in vSphere 5.0
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) was introduced in vSphere 4.1 and allows for cluster wide control of disk resources. The primary aim is to prevent a single VM on a single ESX host from hogging all the I/O...
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#VMworld 2011 - Copenhagen - #VSP1700, #GD21, #GD47
Although it feels like VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas has only just finished, the European conference is already almost on us. I thought I'd put together a short note on what I'm involved in at VMworld 2011...
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VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Reclaim/UNMAP Issue
A performance issue has recently been discovered in the VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Reclaim mechanism introduced in vSphere 5.0. This feature allows an ESXi host to tell the array that a block on a...
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Have you seen the review of vSphere 5 in Network World?
If not, you can check it out here. The review also ran in the print version from the week of 9/26.
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vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) - Useful Links [Updated]
[Updated with new blog references & Performance WP - 06-Oct-2011] Last week, the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) was officially launched by VMware. This is VMware's low cost, easy to install,...
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Slow booting of ESXi 5.0 when iSCSI is configured
An issue has recently been discovered with iSCSI on ESXi 5.0 which is resulting in very slow boot times for the ESXi 5.0. In ESXi 5.0, the iSCSI boot-up code has been modified to retry 9 times (versus...
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vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) Resilience - Network Outage Videos
[Updated - October 12th, 2011 - newer higher resolution videos] Recently I created a few blogs posts on how the vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) handles network outages. I described what happens when...
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Interesting storage stuff from the Virtual Machine User Group Meeting #5,...
I was very fortunate to be invited to speak at the Virtual Machine User Group meeting in the UK yesterday (thank you Brendon, Dawn et al). This is different than the standard VMUG (VMware User Group)...
View ArticleComing to VMworld 2011 Copenhagen Next Week?
If not, it is not too late to register. We will be showing plenty of the new vSphere 5 features at the solutions exchange as well as presenting the latest vSphere information in our many breakout...
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EMC's VASA Implementation
For weeks now I've been trying to find the time to implement EMC's VASA Provider, which was released last month. What with researching new storage features for the next release of vSphere, and...
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A brief history of VAAI & how VMware is contributing to T10 standards
I guess most people who have an interest in storage will be well versed on what VAAI is and how it can communicate to storage systems at a meta level to improve VM performance and scalability. In a...
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VMworld 2011 (Copenhagen) - Interesting Storage Stuff from Diskeeper, Nexenta...
Those of you who are regular readers of this blog will know that I usually try to put something together after I've attended a conference. Here is an article about things which I thought were cool at...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) feedback survey
Now that vSphere 5.0 has been out for a few months we have launched a survey to understand the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) needs moving forward so that we can take feedback into consideration for...
View ArticlevCenter Site Recovery Manager 4.1.2 Released
On October 27th the 4.1.2 release of SRM was published. It's a fairly small update, but has a few nice bug-fixes included: Site Recovery Manager 4.1 Test Failover Fails Recovery Fails When NFS...
View ArticleStretched Clusters and VM-Host Affinity Rules
I have had this questions multiple times in the last weeks and decided it was time to get a more official statement out. The question is if VM-Host Affinity rules are supported in a vSphere Metro...
View ArticleWant to use a self signed SSL certificate with the vSphere Web Client?
If you are wanting to use your own self signed certificate for SSL authentication with the vSphere Web Client you'll need to update the Tomcat configuration file to include the self signed certificate....
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