I received a very valid question this week from someone who bought our book. The question was as follows: On Page 35 it is mentioned that a Secondary Node is not automatically elected as a Primary if a Primary fails. It then goes on to state the conditions under which this does occur, one of these is if the primary [...]

No need to struggle anymore, just learn PowerCLI from the masters… Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf wrote a book which is available for pre-ordering right now. Most of you probably already know Luc and Alan, but for those who don’t I think I am not exaggerating when I say that these guys are the top PowerCLI experts in the virtualization [...]

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 [...]

The Dutch VMUG event has always been infamous for the massive amount of attendees and the excellent agenda. Of course the 2010 edition will be no different. The VMUG Team secured a great selection of speakers, and with roughly 700 attendees I guess you could say that it is a mini-VMworld. Just for those wondering who will be speaking and [...]

** for vSphere 5.0 check this update! ** Today I received a very valid question around a full cluster failure. What happens when all the hosts in a cluster go down and at some point return? Will the VMs be restarted and what do I need to have in place to ensure they will? It seems to be an urban [...]

One of the things that has always been missing from VMware’s High Availability solution stack is application awareness. As I explained in one of my earlier posts this is something that VMware is actively working on. Instead of creating a full App clustering level VMware decided to extend “VM Monitoring” and created an API to enable App level resiliency. At [...]

Yes, we will be open on Monday from 13:00 till 18:00! Not only that, but the for the remaining days the labs will open up at 08:00. Some might wonder why the schedule changed, the reason for it is simple the amount of VMworld registrations was so overwhelming VMware wanted to offer everyone the opportunity to get the most out [...]