I was just reading this topic on the VMTN community. In short, a second vswp file gets created during a VMotion. As the starter of this topic noticed it could lead to not being able to VMotion VMs if you don’t have enough free disk space on your VMFS volume. One of my UK colleagues, David Burgess, jumped in and [...]
I was just reading this article by Vladan about Storage VMotion. He explains how you can get your unused disk space back with Storage VMotion and moving to a Thin Provisioned disk at the same time. I agree that this is one of the best new features out there. It’s easy and effective. However, you will need to keep in [...]
I don’t know what has happened. Yesterday evening everything was fine, I just woke up and had the following email in my mailbox: Your account has been suspended due to a violation of our Terms of Service. Account suspended: depping Date of violation: July 29, 2009 Minimum suspension period: 1 week Your account was suspended for cross-posting duplicate tweets across [...]
There are still a couple of days left to enter the “Run It With VMware” contest. I just noticed a tweet which had a link to a video of one of the contestants. I thought it was funny, especially the last bit were the woman does the vSphere rap. Anyway, $ 5000,- grand prize and four $ 1000,- second prizes [...]
Finally, the results have been emailed today. Congrats to all of you who passed the exam! (And those who didn’t, I’m sure you will next time now you know what to expect.) I know at least a couple of you bloggers passed: Heino(Virtual troll) and Rick Scherer(VMware Tips). Of course there are some more names floating around on twitter. Again [...]
Lately I’ve been receiving so many emails/dm’s/pm’s about how to prepare for the Enterprise Exam(VCDX) that I decided to actually write an article as I did not have one yet. As a start I would like to recommend the Deploy, Secure and Analyze course. The course covers 99% of the exam. If you don’t have the budget you could also [...]
As many of you hopefully know there’s a weekly VMTN Community Podcast. VMware’s John Troyer runs the show and usually most of the active VMTN Members join in on the fun. The best shows so far, in my opinion, are the deep technical ones and especially around storage. This evening(for us Europeans at least, wednesday 21:00 GMT +1 !!) Chad [...]
