As most of you hopefully know by now we are working on a vSphere Quick Start Guide. We’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks getting it finalized. As you can imagine with VMworld coming up we are working against a very tight deadline. Thomas Bryant has been doing most of the formatting for the book and ordered a [...]
Don’t think many people have noticed this KB article yet or even experienced this issue with HA but nevertheless it’s worth mentioning. Apparently there’s an issue with HA in vCenter 4.0 when a class A network is being used. When a node fails this will not be detected and thus the fail-over of VMs will not occur. Although not many [...]
David Davis just released a brand new computer based training, VMware vSphere. The CBT is nearly 18 Hours on 3 Jam Packed DVDs! I haven’t seen the CBT yet, but if it’s anywhere near the quality of the previous CBT it’s definitely worth it. David gave me a coupon code(VSPHERE25) which gives you guys a $ 25,- reduction so be [...]
A couple of days ago we had a discussion on Admission Control and DPM internally at VMware. One of our customers had enabled DPM on a HA cluster. During the evening 4 out of 5 hosts where placed into standby mode because of this. This customer, as many of our customers have these days, had vCenter running virtual. This of [...]
I discussed slot sizes a week ago but forgot to add a screenshot of a great new vSphere feature which reports slot info of a cluster. I just love vSphere!
We just opened up registrations for the VMworld Run The Golden Gate Bridge 2009 event! Several options have been discussed and basically they were pros and cons to every single time-slot/date we proposed and we decided to go with two categories and an evening event instead of an early event. We know that this time-slot is not optimal, but we [...]
HyTrust just published info on their latest and greatest version of their appliance which will be released on the 24th of August and will carry version number 1.5. Hytrust sits between your virtual environment and the admin and enforces granular authorization of all virtual infrastructure management operations, according to user role, object, label, protocol and IP address. If you will [...]
