Posts Tagged ‘deepdive’

Overhauling the HA deepdive section

I’ve been working on an overhauled version of the HA Deepdive Page. I’ve been adding “basic design principles” which hopefully you find useful.Here’s an example of what they look like:
Basic design principle: For iSCSI the preferred isolation response is always “Power off” to avoid a possible split brain scenario.
Another bit I’ve added is the following:
Please [...]

DRS Deepdive Blog page

Over the last week I received a whole bunch of requests to turn the DRS Deepdive articles in a “blog page” so that they would appear up in the menu. That’s what I just did, so you guys can easily find the info you are looking for. I will also try to add a diagram [...]

DRS Deepdive part II

Yesterday I posted the DRS Deepdive. One of the questions still left open was how DRS decides which VM to move to create a balance cluster. After a lot of digging for non-NDA info I found this “procedure” in a VMworld presentation(TA16) amongst some other cool info.
The following procedure is used to form a set [...]

DRS Deepdive

Last week I mentioned which metrics DRS used for load balancing VMs across a cluster. Of course the obvious question was when the DRS Deepdive would be posted. I must admit I’m not an expert on this topic as like most of you I always took for granted that it worked out of the box. [...]

Slot sizes

I’ve been receiving a lot of questions around slot sizes lately. Although I point everyone to my HA Deepdive post not everyone seems to understand what I am trying to explain. The foremost reason is that most people need to be able to visualize it; which is tough with slot sizes. Just to freshen up [...]

What’s that ALUA exactly?

Of course by now we have all read the excellent and lengthy posts by Chad Sakac on ALUA. I’m just a simple guy and usually try to summarize posts like Chad’s in a couple of lines which makes it easier for me to remember and digest.
First of all ALUA stands for “Asymmetric Logical Unit Access”. [...]

HA and Slot sizes

This has always been a hot topic, HA and Slot sizes/Admission Control. One of the most extensive (Non-VMware) articles is by Chad Sakac aka Virtual Geek, but of course since then a couple of things has changed. Chad commented on my HA Deepdive if I could address this topic, here you go Chad.
Slot sizes
Lets start [...]

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