I had this question coincidentally two times of the last 3 weeks and I figured that it couldn’t hurt explaining it here as well. The question on the VMTN community was as follows: on 13 sec: a host which hears from none of the partners will ping the isolation address on 14 sec: if no reply from isolation address it [...]

As part of my new role within VMware Technical Marketing I am responsible for creating collateral. Most of you have seen the series of articles about the operational differences between ESX and ESXi. After finalizing the series I transformed them into a whitepaper. I guess one thing that stood out for me while going through that process is that writing [...]

The cat is finally out of the bag, VMware Press was just officially announced. Indianapolis, IN – May 19, 2011 – Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity. The newly formed press will provide [...]

Lately I have been thinking about the future of servers and more specifically the design around servers. Servers are more and more heading towards these massive beasts with all sorts of options that many might not need, but end up paying for as they are already bolted on. On the other hand you have these massive blade chassis that will [...]

I guess many people have been waiting on official statements around this. Although this was posted a couple of days ago I wanted to make sure everyone has seen it as it could be crucial for your Design / Environment. Source As of today, the following support scenarios are being updated, for Exchange 2010 SP1, and later: The Unified Messaging [...]

A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the [...]

I received a preliminary copy of a this report a couple of weeks ago, but since then nothing has changed. NetApp took the time to compare FC against, FCoE, iSCSI and NFS. Like most of us, probably, I still had the VI3 mindset and expected that FC would come out on top. Fact of the matter is that everything is [...]