I started diving in to vShield App and one thing that I like about vShield App is that it allows you to use different types of objects to apply your policies to. Never really put too much thought in to it, but considering the world is more and more changing to policy based management this fits right in. I just [...]

Mike Laverick started a campaign last week on the VMware Community Forums and asked for the VMTN Subscription to be reinstated, coincidentally the same request came in through the VMUG board. For those who have never heard of the VMTN Subscription program it was similar to MSDN and enabled you to run VMware software in your lab environment for a [...]

My colleague Cormac posted an article about this already, but I figured it was important enough to rehash some of content. As many of you have experienced there was an issue with ESXi 5.0 in iSCSI environments. Booting would take a fair amount of time due to the increase of the amount of retries in the case creating a connection [...]

I was just browsing through our documentation and stumbled on something which has got some cool potential. http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50/GUID-F78EB579-B11C-4E65-9EE3-145888A005F6.html This describes how to setup the vSphere side of things for a mirrored disk within a Windows 2008 Guest. Just imagine doing in-guest mirroring of your data while doing FT on the outside. This means you would be able to span multiple [...]

I wrote an article about the scenario where all host fail, due to for instance a power outage, and how HA responds to it. I had a question today if this was still valid with vSphere 5.0. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to describe the steps that vSphere 5.0 takes. Power Outage, all hosts down Power on hosts Election process [...]