Today someone asked a question about advanced settings for VM Monitoring which is probably the most underestimated feature of VMware HA. As the Availability Guide is not really clear on this I decided it was worth sharing. Below you can find the original question that was asked on the VMTN Forum: What is the point of having both of these [...]

For those who are not following Frank’s blog, he just posted a sneak peek of the upcoming vSphere Clustering book. It looks really really slick in full color. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Go to Frank’s article for more details.

I had this question coincidentally two times of the last 3 weeks and I figured that it couldn’t hurt explaining it here as well. The question on the VMTN community was as follows: on 13 sec: a host which hears from none of the partners will ping the isolation address on 14 sec: if no reply from isolation address it [...]

Last week I noticed that one of the articles that I wrote in 2008 is still very popular. This article explains the various possible combinations of the advanced settings “EnableResignature” and “DisallowSnapshotLUN”. For those who don’t know what these options do in a VI3 environment; they allow you to access a volume which is marked as “unresolved” due to the [...]

Last week VMware officially released an official paper around Deployment Best Practices for HA. I was one of the authors of the document. Together with several people from the Technical Marketing Team we gathered all best practices that we could find, validated and simplified them to make it rock solid. I think it is a good read. It is short [...]

In August we announced that we were working a secret project and let you guys in on it. The idea was to get it published through an official Publisher but due to several circumstances and a very tight deadline we decided to go the self-publishing route to make it available as soon as possible. So here it is, the moment [...]

I briefly touched on this topic already, but I guess on Yellow-Bricks the primary focus should be technical. I downloaded Symantec’s Application HA and decided to give it a spin, I already started documenting the installation of the ApplicationHA Console and the Guest Component but Mr Sloof beat me to it and documented his finding in the following two articles. [...]