It seems to be survey month…. Nevertheless this survey will take you a couple of minutes and is about Virtual Machine Storage and Snapshots. Most of our PMs are currently revising / updating and prioritizing the roadmap and real customer data and opinions are always welcome to define these. We would appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of [...]

Disclaimer: Now, lets make this very clear. Don’t touch “useANO” unless you are specifically instructed to do so, this article is just for educational purposes. I had some issues in my lab with an ALUA array. (If you have no clue what ALUA is, read this post.) As you hopefully know with an ALUA array you typically have 4 paths. [...]

Thanks to Jason Nash’s article I managed to finally get TRIM enabled for my SSD on my MAC. The procedure works great, however when you have a dual SSD setup like I have (booting on a 120GB Intel and running my VMs on a 256GB Kingston) it doesn’t work as replacing the identifier leaves you with 1 SSD without TRIM [...]

This week I had a call with a new and exciting company called Tintri. Tintri has been flying under the radar for the last couple of years and has worked really hard to develop a new product. Tintri was founded by some of the smartest kids on the block one of which is their current CEO and former EVP of [...]

Nothing deep technical this time, I just want to make clear how cool VAAI is! Last week I noticed on twitter that some people reported some nice figures around VAAI. I asked them if they were willing to run some tests and compare VAAI vs NON-VAAI runs. And these were some of the responses I received, I cut them down [...]

Last week there was a discussion on vCenter availability on twitter. The main outcome was that vCenter is an important component of your infrastructure and needs to be highly available. Coincidentally I received the request to repost this Survey about vCenter Availability and your thoughts on it. This is your chance to define the future around vCenter availability, take the [...]

When we wrote the HA/DRS book both Frank and I were still very much in an “ESX Classic” mindset. Over the last weeks I had questions around resilient network configurations for ESXi. I referred people back to the book but the comments that I got were that the examples were very much ESX Classic instead of ESXi. Now in my [...]