It is time to take out your agenda open it on December the 11th 2009 and write down “Dutch VMUG”. It’s the fifth edition of this annual event and of course our fearless VMUG leader Viktor expects to set a new attendee record. Just for the record the last edition had little over 500 attendees, yes it has become a [...]
I just noticed the following article by “Oracle Storage Guy“: Re: Need a favor – Oracle You are not going to believe this. Some VMware folks met with Charles Phillips, the president or CEO of Oracle and he said no customers had ever mentioned to him that they wanted Oracle to support their products on VMware. Or modify the licensing [...]
As you might have noticed last week I’m still digesting all the info from VMworld. One of the coolest new supported technologies is Long Distance VMotion. A couple of people already wrote a whole article on this session so I will not be doing this. (Chad Sakac, Joep Piscaer) However I do want to stress some of the best practices [...]
I was just looking at my blog statistics; one of the most interesting part is referrer section. Referrers give you a good idea of where your visitors are coming from which can be used to write specific content. I removed Google.com from the top-10 by the way. On average I have little over 4000 unique visits on a working day, [...]
Did you know that… the best practice to increase the isolation response time(das.failuredetectiontime) from 15000 to 60000 for an Active/Standby situation for your service console has been deprecated as of vSphere. (In other words for active/standby leave it set to the default 15000 for vSphere) the limit of 100 VMs per host is actually “100 powered on and HA enabled [...]
We need you!! Well if you got a preview copy of the vSphere Quick Start Guide that is. We are currently doing a final review of the book before it will be publicly available. We have read it so many times that we know the text by heart which makes proofreading really tough. If you managed to pick up a [...]
This was probably one of the coolest sessions of VMworld. Irfan Ahmad was the host of this session and some of you might know him from Project PARDA. The PARDA whitepaper describes the algorithm being used and how the customer could benefit from this in terms of performance. As Irfan stated this is still in a research phase. Although the [...]
