I just read Eric’s article about all the topics he covered around vSphere 5 over the last couple of weeks and as I just published the last article I had prepared I figured it would make sense to post something similar. (Great job by the way Eric, I always enjoy reading your articles and watching your videos!) Although I did hit roughly 10.000 unique views on average per day the first week after the launch and still 7000 a day currently I have the feeling that many were focused on the licensing changes rather then all the new and exciting features that were coming up, but now that the dust has somewhat settled it makes sense to re-emphasize them. Over the last 6 months I have been working with vSphere 5 and explored these features, my focus for most of those 6 months was to complete the book but of course I wrote a large amount of articles along the way, many of which ended up in the book in some shape or form. This is the list of articles I published. If you feel there is anything that I left out that should have been covered let me know and I will try to dive in to it. I can’t make any promises though as with VMworld coming up my time is limited.
- Live Blog: Raising The Bar, Part V
- 5 is the magic number
- Hot of the press: vSphere 5.0 Clustering Technical Deepdive
- vSphere 5.0: Storage DRS introduction
- vSphere 5.0: What has changed for VMFS?
- vSphere 5.0: Storage vMotion and the Mirror Driver
- Punch Zeros
- Storage DRS interoperability
- vSphere 5.0: UNMAP (vaai feature)
- vSphere 5.0: ESXCLI
- ESXi 5: Suppressing the local/remote shell warning
- Testing VM Monitoring with vSphere 5.0
- What’s new?
- vSphere 5:0 vMotion Enhancements
- vSphere 5.0: vMotion enhancement, tiny but very welcome!
- ESXi 5.0 and Scripted Installs
- vSphere 5.0: Storage initiatives
- Scale Up/Out and impact of vRAM?!? (part 2)
- HA Architecture Series – FDM (1/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Primary nodes? (2/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Datastore Heartbeating (3/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Restarting VMs (4/5)
- HA Architecture Series – Advanced Settings (5/5)
- VMFS-5 LUN Sizing
- vSphere 5.0 HA: Changes in admission control
- vSphere 5 – Metro vMotion
- SDRS and Auto-Tiering solutions – The Injector
Once again if there it something you feel I should be covering let me know and I’ll try to dig in to it. Preferably something that none of the other blogs have published of course.
Marcel van den Berg says
Nice overview! Suggestion for a new blogposting: some information on the application awareness API open to the public in vSphere 5.0 There is info in your excellent book on this subject. Maybe you can give some guidelines how to create a script which monitors the state of an application and if the application does not respond triggers HA to reboot the guest.
Duncan says
Let me see if I can do that. I know that William Lam is writing an article about the API and I bet he does a far better job than I even will be able to. I do think an overview would be useful. Added to my todo list, thanks!
Mike says
vSphere 5 now supports nested setups doesn’t it ? Are there any gotchas or does it just ‘work’ without further modifications (i.e. turning on VMs etc.) ? Probably not worth it’s own blog post though 🙂
MartinWi says
It could be interesting, especially what kind of performance penalty you’d be looking at. I’m not sure of a real world use case apart from testing/lab usage. But lets say in theory you buy a couple of “fat” vm’s from a service provider and run your own virtual esxi hosts in them to keep from having to worry about hardware, but still have pretty much full control over your environment.
MartinWi says
Perhaps something about the new vCenter appliance?
What you could do with it to extend its functionality for example.
Onyema Ogueri says
@ Mike, I have tested nested set up. It is same as in vsphere 4. You will still have to make some modifications.
iwan says
A demo on VASA would be good. I can’t find it anywhere.
Thanks from Singapore
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Duncan says
http://download3.vmware.com/media/flv/vSphereProfileDriven.html
That video contains a bit of VASA. Problem is that I haven’t received a fully functioning VASA provider yet. As soon as EMC or NetApp has one I can do an article about it.
Duncan says
By the way, I created that video and it is created using a self-made VASA Provider… so a simulation 🙂
Mike says
More info about running ESXi stateless might be good too 🙂
Horst says
I think I have not seen anything published on best practices for vmotion across mutiple NICs. Should be useful..