Just noticed that several Storage Replication Adapter’s(SRA) have been updated over the last couple of weeks. For those using one of these specific SRA’s it might be beneficial to update: EMC RecoverPoint 3.1 Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.0.2.1 | Released 03/17/2009 Storage Array Adapter for IBM N-Series Version 1.0.1 | Released 03/18/2009 IBM DS4000 / DS5000 Series Storage Replication Adapter [...]
In the “Multivendor post to iSCSI” article by Chad Sakac and others(Netapp, EMC, Dell, HP, VMware) a new multi-pathing method for iSCSI on the next version of ESX(vSphere) had already been revealed. Read the full article for in depth information on how this works in the current version and how it will work in the next version. I guess the [...]
FYI: The Site Recovery Manager compatibility guide has just been updated. As of the 16th of march vCenter 2.5 U4 is supported for SRM 1.0 update 1.
In my Lab I was exploring the upgrade possibilities from ESX 3.5 to the next version. Usually I do a full reinstall just to be absolutely sure there’s no old packages floating around. For testing purposes I decided to do an upgrade of the ESX host. I opened up Update Manager and with a couple simple clicks I upgraded my [...]
I recently discussed the effect of RVI/Virtualized MMU on Transparent page Sharing, and just 5 days later VMware published this extensive PDF:”Performance Evaluation of AMD RVI Hardware Assist“. AMD recently introduced its second generation of hardware support for virtualization, incorporating MMU virtualization called Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI). Hardware support for MMU virtualization can improve performance, particularly for MMU-intensive workloads. VMware [...]
“Cisco and VMware today announced a comprehensive, strategic original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement which will incorporate product engineering and integrated sales and support strategies for datacenter virtualization and unified computing. The resulting combination of the Cisco Unified Computing System with VMware’s upcoming virtual datacenter operating system, the VMware vSphere™, will provide customers with access to a unique and powerful virtualized [...]
Whenever I do a beta test of a product / OS the first thing I do is check if all the features / commands that I used with the previous version still exist. When I did an “esxcfg- tab tab” on the next version of ESX one thing stood out, esxcfg-vmhbadevs was gone. I use this command a lot when [...]
