I was discussing something with one of my former colleagues a couple of days ago. He asked me what the impact was of running VMware View in an environment without HA. To be honest I am not a View SME, but I do know a thing or two about HA/vSphere in general. So the first thing that I mentioned was [...]
I guess there are a couple of keypoints I will need to stress for those creating designs: New HA maximums 32 host clusters 320 virtual machines per host 3,000 virtual machines per cluster In other words: you can have 10 hosts with 300 VMs each or 20 hosts with 150 VMs each or 32 with 93 VMs…. as long as you [...]
When I was installing vSphere 4.1 ESXi I ran into a problem. I received the following error when I added the ESXi host to my cluster: Call “Datacenter.QueryConnectionInfo” for object “yellow bricks” on vCenter Server “W2K8-001″ failed. Although the error didn’t make much sense I had the feeling it had something to do with name resolution(This KB article gave a [...]
I just wanted to let you know that vSphere 4.1 has been released and is available to download. No point in me rehashing the same “what’s new” info everyone is rehashing today and probably the rest of the week. Expect some more detailed blogs coming up over the course of the upcoming weeks.
My colleague Craig Risinger wrote the below and was kind enough to share it with us. Thanks Craig! A quick primer on VMware Reservations (not that anyone asked)… A Reservation is a guarantee. There’s a difference between reserving a resource and using it. A VM can use more or less than it has reserved. Also, if a reservation-holder isn’t using all [...]
I just received a request from our Product Management team. Gil Adato is is working on the next generation of DPM and is seeking DPM current and past users and he asked me to post the following message on my blog. I hope you can help Gil and VMware taking DPM to the next level! Dear VMware Customers, Product management is [...]
We had a discussion internally around memory limits and what the use case would be for using them. I got some great feedback on my reply and comments so I decided to turn the whole thing into a blog article. A comment made by one of our developers, which I highly respect, is what triggered my reply. Please note that [...]
