Frank and I have discussed this topic multiple times and it was briefly mentioned in Frank’s excellent series about over-sizing virtual machines; Zero Pages, TPS and the impact of a boot-storm. Pre-vSphere 4.1 we have seen it all happen, a host fails and multiple VMs need to be restarted. Temporary contention exists as it could take up to 60 minutes [...]

I just activated my new Theme. There are still some minor quirks, and I still need to add the Yellow-Bricks logo (Thanks Sander for creating this cool new logo!), but I enabled it as I wanted to get started with a fresh look’n’feel. Hope you like it, and of course a Happy New Year!