As you might have already noticed, there are two new sponsors! I’m proud to announce that Veeam has signed up for 3 months and Hyper9 has signed up for 1 year. I want to thank both for their support and of course VMPeople for renewing for 3 months!
Another update again by Rob de Veij, RVTools 2.4. This release includes a new feature, filtering. Rob also revealed that the upcoming version will contain health checks. Here are the changes: Version 2.4 (March 2009) On the vDatastore tab you can now see which hosts are connected to the datastore. The data on the vInfo, vCpu, vMemory, vDisk, vFloppy, vCD, [...]
I was just looking at my stats, and every once in a while I check my top 10 referrers just to get an idea who drives the most traffic to my website. I guess most are obvious but at least two surprised me: vmware.com/vmtn/planet/v12n vmware-land.com vmwaretips.com twitter.com vmetc.com it.slashdot.org vmworld.com blogs.netapp.com rtfm-ed.co.uk virtualgeek.typepad.com Most surprising definitely Slashdot and Twitter. (I [...]
It seems to be performance week this week at VMware. It started out with Eric Horschman’s reply to Virtualization Review’s hypervisor performance comparisson. What amazed me the most, besides the results, is the fact that Keith Ward writes that the methodology was discussed with VMware and VMware agreed that it was fair. Reading Eric’s response this certainly isn’t the case. [...]
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When I started out with ESX 3.0.x the first thing I wanted to do was disable the VMFS-2 driver. There’s no need for it when you’re not accessing VMFS-2 volumes and removing it can lead to performance gains or at least a faster rescan of your storage. Removing it, according to to this section of the VMware website, was supposed [...]
Your VMFS has been recognized as a snapshot, what are you going to do? Hopefully most of you have read my previous post on this topic by now. If you didn’t, be very ashamed and start reading my EnableResignature post before you continue. I was just playing with a VMworld Europe lab manual, which was about the next version of [...]
