During VMworld I received multiple questions around support for vSphere Storage DRS with vSphere Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we even had this question during our session and my answer was “Yes it does”. During some of the other sessions presenters stated that it was unsupported. Scott Lowe also mentions recalling the fact that it was mentioned somewhere down the line [...]
I just noticed I am listed as one of the top 50 “Must-Read IT Blogs” by BizTech. It is a great honor to be part of a list which features some of the most brilliant people in IT and some of the largest corporate blogs out there. Make sure to read the Top 50 and add these blogs to your [...]
VMworld US has just been wrapped up and it is time to start looking at VMworld Europe already. I just checked the schedule builder and it looks that our session is scheduled on Thursday at 14:00 Wednesday at 15:00. Yes I would have definitely preferred a different time slot as well, but it is what it is and we will [...]
VMworld Day 2 started off with a great keynote by no one less than Dr Steve Herrod. Steve spoke about all the changes we introduced with the launch of the Cloud Infrastructure Suite and all the change which are coming up… including sneak peeks of not release products. I live blogged the session and I don’t want to blog just [...]
I am dead tired so it will be a brief overview of my first day at VMworld. I had two sessions planned today and attended another 2 sessions. (Besides other meetings of course) We started the day with #VSP1682 aka “vSphere Clustering Q&A. The room was packed to our surprise, you never know what you are up against at 08:00 [...]
I always enjoy reading the performance whitepapers. They are usually fairly technical and give you a better understanding of how the products work! All of these are most definitely worth downloading and reading! They been released a couple of days back. Check it out: vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10202 Understanding Memory Management in VMware [...]
The wait is finally over… I’ve noticed many people on twitter craving for it so I figured it wouldn’t harm anyone if I would provide the links to the download page. Here are the links to the direct page of ESXi and vCenter VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512) VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005) (vCenter Server Appliance also available as of [...]
