I was just playing around with auto-deploy and I figured I would quickly scribble down the steps required to configure it. The documentation is okay but it often refers me back and forth in the document which makes it difficult to read at times. Here is what I did to get it working. I was in doubt if I would [...]

The wait is finally over… I’ve noticed many people on twitter craving for it so I figured it wouldn’t harm anyone if I would provide the links to the download page. Here are the links to the direct page of ESXi and vCenter VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512) VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005) (vCenter Server Appliance also available as of [...]

On twitter Mike Laverick asked a question around DRS Affinity Rules and if HA would respect these. In this particular instance the question was around VM-Host affinity rules and I noticed multiple tweeps responding and figured it would not hut to repeat this. There are two different types of VM-Host affinity rules: Must aka mandatory Should aka preferential The difference [...]

If anyone is overly excited about VMworld it is me. Although my schedule is completely overbooked and I expect to be running around like crazy every single day, I cannot wait for VMworld to start! Here are 10 things why I am excited about VMworld, in no particular order: Networking No I am not talking about Distributed Switches here… I [...]

Before we dive in to it, lets spell out the actual name of the feature “Swap to host cache”. Remember that, swap to host cache! I’ve seen multiple people mentioning this feature and saw William posting a hack on how to fool vSphere (feature is part of vSphere 5 to be clear) into thinking it has access to SSD disks [...]

Back in March I wrote about this new and interesting storage vendor called Tintri which had just released a new NAS appliance called VMstore. I wrote about their level of integration and the fact that their NAS appliance is virtual machine aware and allows you to define performance policies per virtual machine. I am not going to rehash the complete [...]

I was just reading up and noticed an article about Nutanix. Nutanix is a “new” company which just came out of stealth mode and offers a datacenter in a box type of solution. With that meaning that they have a solution which provides shared storage and compute resources in a single 2u chassis. This 2u chassis can hold up to [...]