My colleague Lee Dilworth, SRM/BC-DR Specialist, pointed me out to an excellent whitepaper by EMC. This whitepaper describes the difference between Powerpath/VE and MRU, Fixed and Round Robin. Key results: Powerpath/VE provides superior load-balancing performance across multiple paths using FC or iSCSI. Powerpath/VE seamlessly integrates and takes control of all device I/O, path selection, and failover without the need for [...]
As John Troyer is extremely busy and has a huge backlog of Podcast notes to publish and I don’t have a life I thought I would throw all links in a blog post so that you have something to read. The Topic of Podcast Number 70 was Storage and to be more specific Thin Provisioning. If you missed the episode [...]
I received the following question a couple of times already; where is my <random vendor+array> SRA? The answer is simple, if it is not on the VMware it has not been certified yet. Every SRA needs to go through a quality assurance process to validate/certify it. If this hasn’t been completed the SRA will not be available for download on [...]
VMware employee Michael Adams just revealed that there’s a beta program for new features or a new release of vSphere. We are looking for beta participants to test out some new vSphere features currently in development. Interested? If so, contact your VMware account team for further details. Unfortunately there are no details disclosed at this point in time and of [...]
VMware has just released a new version of VMware vCenter Chargeback. Below you can find the “what’s new” details from the release notes: vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 | 10/29/2009 | Build 204097 Last Document Update: 10/29/2009 What’s New in this Release vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 provides the following new features: Support for Windows Authentication This release of vCenter Chargeback supports Windows Authentication [...]
While everyone is talking about the new versions of VMware Fusion (Release Notes) and VMware Workstation (Release Notes) I would like to show my appreciation for VMware Player. VMware Player is one of the most under-appreciated VMware products in my opinion. Especially now that VMware has released version 3 I expect to see and hear more of VMware Player. Why? [...]
Over the last week I received a whole bunch of requests to turn the DRS Deepdive articles in a “blog page” so that they would appear up in the menu. That’s what I just did, so you guys can easily find the info you are looking for. I will also try to add a diagram to the post which visualizes [...]
