I’ve seen this question passing by a couple of times now and I found myself going through the document to dig up the reference. I thought it would come in handy to document it: Q) What is the disk size requirements for ESXi installable? A) The minimal required disk size is 5GB (Page 24, ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup [...]
When I entered the competition on yellow-bricks, I showed a list of the sessions and labs I would like to do as my reason for going. I think it is only fair to show what I actually did whilst I was there. I was able to do the majority of the breakout sessions I wanted to and all the labs [...]
Today we had an interesting discussion on the VCDX mailing list. One thing I noticed a while back when I was randomly looking around in “esxtop” was a new field. The field is called ” RESVSTATS and can be enabled in all disk related displays(d, u,v). This will make troubleshooting storage related performance issues a bit easier as the SCSI [...]
** for vSphere 5.0 check this update! ** Today I received a very valid question around a full cluster failure. What happens when all the hosts in a cluster go down and at some point return? Will the VMs be restarted and what do I need to have in place to ensure they will? It seems to be an urban [...]
One of the things that has always been missing from VMware’s High Availability solution stack is application awareness. As I explained in one of my earlier posts this is something that VMware is actively working on. Instead of creating a full App clustering level VMware decided to extend “VM Monitoring” and created an API to enable App level resiliency. At [...]
After attending Irfan Ahmad’s session on Storage IO Control at VMworld I had the pleasure to sit down with Irfan and discuss SIOC. Irfan was so kind to review my SIOC articles(1, 2) and we discussed a couple of other things as well. The discussion and the Storage IO Control session contained some real gems and before my brain resets [...]
I just received the final numbers on the VMworld Europe Labs. I am really excited that the vCloud Director Lab came in as first as I was one of the Captains for that Lab. Great improvement compared to the US where we came in as 4th. Other Labs that went up a couple of places are VMware vShield and of [...]
