I was just replaying Banjot Chanana’s session “VMware Availability Solutions and Futures“. Banjot is the product manager for the availability solutions HA and FT. I met Banjot in Palo Alto the week before VMworld and we spoke about HA, present and futures. Unfortunately I can’t elaborate on anything that has been discussed but I can however repeat what Banjot spoke [...]
I was just listening to “BC3197 – High Availability – Internals and Best Practices” by Marc Sevigny. Marc is one of the HA engineers and is also my primary source of information when it comes to HA. Although most information can be found on the internet it’s always good to verify your understanding with the people who actually wrote it. [...]
One of the biggest resources of information for me personally always has been the VMworld Presentations. I usually download every single presentation and store them in a separate folder and index them and read most of them at least once and some of them multiple times. The VMworld 2009 Sessions are available for download and I recommend you start reading/listening/watching [...]
Simon Long just posted a new article which is titled; VMware vCenter 4 minimum RAM requirement, is it 2GB or 3GB? Simon found two answers(2GB vs 3GB) in three documents which are listed below: VMware’s ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide Scott Lowe’s – Mastering VMware vSphere 4.0 VMware Education – VMware vSphere 4 Install, Configure, and Manage course books [...]
One of my colleagues, Michael White, just pointed out that VMware released a patch for Site Recovery Manager: Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 4 File size: 7.9 MB File type: .msi Here are the most important fixes: a problem that could cause a recovery plan to fail and log the message Panic: Assert Failed: “_pausing” @ d:/build/ob/bora-172907/santorini/src/recovery/secondary/recoveryTaskBase.cpp:328 a [...]
Rob de Veij just uploaded a new version of RVTools. Check it out, there are a whole bunch of new cool features added. Honestly one of the best free tools around, great work Rob! (Everyone keep in mind that Rob does this during the evening so if you’re using this for commercial purposes would be nice to make a small [...]
I’ve reported on this twice already but it seems a fix will be offered soon. I discovered the problem back in March when I did a project where we virtualized a large amount of Citrix XenApp servers on an AMD platform with RVI capabilities. As Hardware MMU increased performance significantly it was enabled by default for 32Bit OS’es. This is [...]
