Gabe asked the question on one of my recent posts if it made sense to enable Hot-Add by default and if there was an impact/overhead? Lets answer the impact/overhead portion first, yes there is an overhead. It is in the range of percents. You might ask yourself where this overhead is coming from and if that is vSphere overhead or… [...]
** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** After my article this week about (ab) using the SRA provided through Site Recovery Manager to fail-over any LUN I expected some people reaching out to me with additional questions. One of the questions which came in more than once was [...]
** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** Last week I received a question and I figured I would dive in to it this week. The question was if it is possible to fail-over LUNs using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which are not part of the Cluster which [...]
I noticed this thread on the VMTN communtity which discussed a time-out during a cluster election process. The one thing all scenarios described in the topic is that they upgraded from 4.1 to 5.0 or 5.0 base to a higher patch level. Marc Sevigny posted in the same thread that it is a known issue which the HA team is [...]
2011 was a great year for me from a career / blogging perspective. I moved over from the delivery side (PSO/Cloud Practice) to the “marketing” side. I used quotes as it is technical marketing and our focus is technical enablement. I was a speaker at both VMworld Las Vegas and VMworld Copenhagen. Of course the publication of our new book, [...]
This month four years ago I created my own blog. Yes indeed, Yellow-Bricks.com had its 4th birthday this month. I want to thank all of you for contributing to the success of Yellow-Bricks by commenting / emailing / tweeting etc. As a token of my appreciation I want to give away 4 copies (paper version) of the vSphere 5 Clustering [...]
I just noticed that my friend Bilal over at cloud-buddy.com has a nice Christmas challenge up on his blog! You can win a free VMware Workstation license and a 365 day eval license and a couple of e-books! Worth checking out in my opinion, give it a shot… you might be the lucky one. Free vSphere 5 goodies for vGeeks – [...]
