I was just listening to “BC3197 – High Availability – Internals and Best Practices” by Marc Sevigny. Marc is one of the HA engineers and is also my primary source of information when it comes to HA. Although most information can be found on the internet it’s always good to verify your understanding with the people who actually wrote it. [...]
One of my colleagues, Michael White, just pointed out that VMware released a patch for Site Recovery Manager: Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 4 File size: 7.9 MB File type: .msi Here are the most important fixes: a problem that could cause a recovery plan to fail and log the message Panic: Assert Failed: “_pausing” @ d:/build/ob/bora-172907/santorini/src/recovery/secondary/recoveryTaskBase.cpp:328 a [...]
When vSphere was still in beta one of the requirements for using FT was to have hyperthreading disabled. For most people this wasn’t an issue as traditional hyperthreading usually did not improve performance and thus was disabled by default. However with the Nehalem all this changed. Of course I can’t guarantee a specific percentage of performance increase but increases of [...]
VMware just released a brand new version of VMware Data Recovery. Version 1.0.2 Build Number 188925 Release Date 2009/09/09 This releases fixes a couple of known issues: Various Integrity Check Issues Under certain circumstances, integrity checks reported damaged restore points and cannot load session errors. For example, such problems might be reported if: A combination of simultaneous overlapping backups and [...]
I receive this great newsletter via email every week from Michael White, he’s one of our Specialist SE’s. Michael created a great VMware SRM document and this FAQ is part of it. I want to thank Michael for sharing it with the rest of the world. Generic I want to install SRM, what do I need to do? It is [...]
Although the VMware download section has not been updated VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 has been officially released. Click on VMware Data Recovery 1.0 in the download section and you will be presented with the following: Latest Released Version: 1.0.1 | 07/09/09 | 176771 You can find the release notes here. I want to highlight the following resolved issue as it [...]
A couple of weeks ago I published an article on the maximum amount of VMs one could run on a ESX host. In short; if you enabled HA on your cluster it restricts the amount of VMs you can run on a host depending on the total amount of hosts in the cluster. This means that depending on your consolidation [...]
