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 [...]

This year at VMworld I have the honor to part of a panel discussion moderated by Rick Scherer. Of course I am not the only person on the panel. Next to me the panel will feature my fellow bloggers and virtualization experts: Frank Denneman, Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac. For those of you attending VMworld be sure to register for [...]

I was playing around in my lab and figured I would give the vCenter Appliance (VCVA)  a try. I realize that today there are limitations when it comes to the vCenter Appliance and I wanted to list those to get them out in the open: No Update Manager No Linked-Mode No support for the VSA (vSphere Storage Appliance) Only support [...]

I just read Eric’s article about all the topics he covered around vSphere 5 over the last couple of weeks and as I just published the last article I had prepared I figured it would make sense to post something similar. (Great job by  the way Eric, I always enjoy reading your articles and watching your videos!) Although I did [...]

When doing some research for the vSphere Clustering Technical Deepdive book I stumbled across something which was very surprising and difficult to grasp at first. I figured explaining it in a short article was the best approach. Many of  you have read the HA deepdive article or the book and know that das.failuredetectiontime is probably the most commonly used advanced [...]