I was experiencing some issues with one of my Dell R610 servers. (Fans never spin down.) After doing some research I noticed people suggested it was due to bad firmware of iDRAC Express. So I figured why not update it, should be a simple process and something I should be able to do in a couple of minutes. After scavenging [...]
There has been a lot of discussion in the past around Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding and what the value should be and how it relates to the Queue Depth. Jason Boche wrote a whole article about when Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding (DSNRO) is used and when not and I guess I would explain it as follows: When two or more virtual machines are issuing I/Os to [...]
Today someone asked a question about advanced settings for VM Monitoring which is probably the most underestimated feature of VMware HA. As the Availability Guide is not really clear on this I decided it was worth sharing. Below you can find the original question that was asked on the VMTN Forum: What is the point of having both of these [...]
It is time to register for the event of the year and something I have personally been working on… Raising the Bar, Part V Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Time: 9:00 AM (PT) | 12:00 PM (ET) Please join VMware executives Paul Maritz, CEO and Steve Herrod, CTO for the unveiling of the next major step forward in Cloud infrastructure. [...]
I was part of the voting committee for VMworld and one of the sessions which I voted for unfortunately did not make it. However with over 350 submissions there are always some excellent topics that don’t make it. I did feel it was worth sharing. So here’s the outline of the session and some additional info. All credits to Richard [...]
@Mike_Laverick asked a question on twitter today about something that is stated in the Cloud Computing with vCloud Director book. His question was, and no he is not dyslectic he only had 140 characters pg65. Order of storage tiers. Doesn’t that infer FC/SDD+VMFS is “race horse” and NFS “donkey”…??? Mike was referring to the following section in the book: SLA [...]
For those who are not following Frank’s blog, he just posted a sneak peek of the upcoming vSphere Clustering book. It looks really really slick in full color. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Go to Frank’s article for more details.
