**disclaimer: this article is an out-take of our book: vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive** There’s a cool and exciting new feature as part of Storage vMotion in vSphere 5.0. This new feature is called Mirror Mode and it enables faster and highly efficient Storage vMotion processes. But what is it exactly, and what does it replace? Prior to vSphere 5.0 [...]
** Update: Available now: paperback full |paperback black & white ** I’ve seen a lot of crazy things, but when I clicked the amazon link for our book yesterday I literally jumped up and started cheering… Number 1 in “Computers & Internet”. These are the kind of things that make it all worth it! PS: We asked amazon/createspace to get [...]
By now most of you heard about this new feature called Profile-Driven Storage that will be introduced with vSphere 5.0, but what is it good for? Some of you, depending on the size of the environment, currently have a nice long operational procedure to deploy virtual machines. The procedure usually contains gathering information about the requirements of the virtual machine’s [...]
A lot has changed with vSphere 5.0 and so has one of the most under-appreciated “features”…. VMFS. VMFS has been substantially changed and I wanted to list some of the major changes and express my appreciation for the great work the VMFS team has done! VMFS-5 uses GPT instead of MBR VMFS-5 supports volumes up to 64TB This includes Pass-through [...]
Just noticed that the collateral I have been working on is available for download today as well. Check the “What’s new for Storage” whitepaper, the Storage DRS video and the Profile-Driven Storage video.
Storage DRS is a brand new feature of vSphere 5.0. It has been one of my focus areas for the last 6 months and probably one of the coolest features of vSphere 5.0. Storage DRS enables you to aggregate datastores in to a single object, called a datastore cluster. This new object is what you will be managing from now [...]
Yes, here it is… the moment we’ve all been waiting for… vSphere 5.0. Finally announced today, and on top of that also new releases of vCD (1.5), SRM (5.0), vShield (5.0) and of course a new product called the vSphere Storage Appliance. Over the last months I have been working hard on collateral for this launch and soon it should [...]
