I started digging in to this yesterday when I had a comment on my Metro Cluster article. I found it very challenging to get through the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster HCL details and decided to write an article about it which might help you as well when designing or implementing a solution like this. First things first, here are the [...]

I had a discussion via email about metro clusters and HA last week and it made me realize that HA’s new architecture (as part of vSphere 5.0) might be confusing to some. I started re-reading the article which I wrote a while back about HA and metro / stretched cluster configurations and most actually still applies. Before you read this [...]

PowerCLI-MAN! Just make sure you catch him at VMworld Europe. He is most likely to appear at VSP1882 or VSP1883. These sessions are hosted by no one less then Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf, that by it self should a reason to attend! PowerCLI @ VMworld Europe from Alan Renouf on Vimeo. I am so looking forward to this, PowerCLI-MAN [...]

I was just playing around with esxtop in vSphere 5.0 and spotted something that changed. I figured there must be more so I started digging. I didn’t dig too deep as there is a great VMworld session (VSP1999) on this topic by Krishna Raj Raja and I figured why re-invent the wheel. Anyway, here’s the things I noticed which will definitely [...]

I was just listening to some of the VMworld sessions and one was about HA. The presenter had a section about Datastore Heartbeats and mentioned that Datastore Heartbeats was added to prevent “Isolation Events”. I’ve heard multiple people make this statement over the last couple of months and I want to make it absolutely clear that this is NOT true. [...]