I just looked at the VMworld website and it seems that most sessions are filling up quickly, including my sessions. If you want to to attend these sessions make sure you schedule them rather sooner than later! These are my sessions: Tuesday 13:30 – EXPERTS-01 – Knowledge Experts One-on-One These are 15 minute one-on-one session where you will get the [...]
I would like to ask all of you to look at this Survey for Site Recovery Manager. This survey is closing on the 30th of September already, so if you have a couple of minutes left please fill it out! Here’s the link: http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E5C1ADB7E3A2B4BEE1
In May of 2011 we published our book through Usenix as part of the short topics series. When this book was released as an ebook, shortly after the paper version, it originally was more expensive than the paper copy. I contacted the people responsible within Usenix and asked them if they could do anything about it. As Frank and I [...]
I just finished overhauling the vSphere HA Deepdive page. It now includes details about all versions of HA but is specifically split up in two sections: 4.1 and prior 5.0 I also cleaned up all comments. Although there were a lot of useful details in there the amount of comments made it impossible to maintain. With all changes in 5.0 [...]
While doing some workshops and presentations for some of our partners and customers one of the comments I usually here when discussing the vSphere Storage Appliance is “Why not just buy a cheap NAS device”? Well there are a couple of arguments: Support, many lower end cheap devices are not on the HCL Management, most storage devices require specific knowledge [...]
** disclaimer: if you don’t care about music / the Foo Fighters stop reading and skip to the next article ** As you know by now, besides virtualization I also love music. I’ve always been active doing articles / interviews and much more in the past but at a point I decided to focus my writing on virtualization. Every now [...]
I was doing some troubleshooting this week and needed the CDP network info. I did not have access to a vSphere client, only HP iLO access. I remoted into the ESXi box and enable ESXi Shell. I knew that I could dig up the info using esxcfg-info but the amount of details provided are overwhelming and I would rather get [...]
