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:
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Overhauling the HA deepdive section
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 [...]
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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