I clearly don’t know much about Citrix version of HA, but I do know a thing or two about VMware’s version of HA. The following are outtakes of the article over at DABCC: VMware’s HA is heavily dependent on DNS or alternatively hosts entries being in place. The VMware implementation is based on the Legato Automated Availability Management (AAM), in [...]

So I blogged about Kodiak a couple of days, and just received some new information. Let’s start of with the facts that weren’t clear in the first blog: Kodiak is not open-source at this time. (We’re working on that) We will be releasing an easy to use Open-SDK, and hope to eventually open up the entire code-base. Kodiak is 100% [...]

I’ve been doing VMware Consolidated Backup troubleshooting for the last couple of days. A customer ran into problems that I can’t comment on at this moment. But after an upgrade of VCB 1.1 to VCB 1.5 the customer ran into a new limitation of VCB. After 30 VM’s the script stopped working, the following error was thrown at us: ‘vcbMounter’ [...]

Because of the amount of traffic being produced by several specific parts of the website I will make some minor changes over the next couple of days. I’ve also debugged the My Del.icio.us section which wasn’t working anymore, you can click the links again if you’re interested in what I’m reading on the web. I’ve also changed the social bookmarking [...]

I’ve had this question about a kazillion times by now, what’s the difference between ESX and ESXi. How do they compare… Can I do this with ESX, can I do that with ESXi. Here’s the answer! This KB article contains a table with features and a description of what you can and can’t do in VirtualCenter. Check it out, it’s [...]

For some reason Thomas Weyell’s blog doesn’t get as much attention as it should! Thomas posted a cool article about using Solaris with ZFS as an NFS target for your ESX hosts: Today I will write about a great subject which means a lot to me. I read so often that people will use NFS as a cheap and easy [...]