We’ve spoken about Resource Pools a couple of times over the last months and specifically about shares. (The Resource Pool Priority-Pie Paradox, Resource Pools and Shares.) The common question I received was how can we solve this. The solution is simple: Custom Shares.
However, the operational overhead associated with custom shares is something most people want [...]
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Custom shares on a Resource Pool, scripted
February 24th, 2010
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Overhauling the HA deepdive section
February 23rd, 2010
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I’ve been working on an overhauled version of the HA Deepdive Page. I’ve been adding “basic design principles” which hopefully you find useful.Here’s an example of what they look like:
Basic design principle: For iSCSI the preferred isolation response is always “Power off” to avoid a possible split brain scenario.
Another bit I’ve added is the following:
Please [...]
VUM and downloading patches via PAC
February 16th, 2010
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When I tried to download patches via a freshly installed VMware vSphere Update Manager today I received the following error:
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xml;
hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has no patch data
Although we configured a proxy including the appropriate account it would not work. As suggested in this KB article I removed the “http://” [...]
VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager (LCM) 1.1
January 29th, 2010
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VMware has just released LCM 1.1.
What’s new?
VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager (LCM) 1.1 release enhances the performance, robustness, and scalability of LCM and resolves a number of known issues.
The LCM 1.1 release runs on VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.0.1. To run LCM 1.1, you must install the version of Orchestrator (4.0.1 Build 4502) that accompanies the LCM [...]
vSphere Quick Start Guide – PowerCLI and PDF
January 10th, 2010
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Alan Renouf posted an article on the vSphere Quick Start Guide we recently wrote which triggered this article. First let me quote from Alan’s article:
I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to do it in PowerCLI, we have added a [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide