Lately I am having a lot of discussions with customers around sizing of their hosts. Especially Cisco UCS(with the 384GB option) and the upcoming Intel Xeon 5600 series with six cores per CPU takes the “Scale Up” discussion to a new level.
I guess we had this discussion in the past as well when 32GB became a commodity. [...]
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Scale UP!
March 17th, 2010
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Limit your Cluster Size to 8?
December 30th, 2009
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Lately I have been seeing more and more people recommending to limit clusters to eight hosts. I guess I might be more or less responsible for this “myth“, unintentionally of course as I would never make a recommendation like that.
My article was based on the maximum amount of VMs per host in a HA cluster [...]
Congrats to those that passed the Design Exam
July 29th, 2009
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Finally, the results have been emailed today. Congrats to all of you who passed the exam! (And those who didn’t, I’m sure you will next time now you know what to expect.) I know at least a couple of you bloggers passed: Heino(Virtual troll) and Rick Scherer(VMware Tips). Of course there are some more names [...]
VMworld 2009 – TA2259 Ask the Experts Panel Session
June 12th, 2009
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We are proud to officially announce the VMworld 2009 – Ask the Experts Panel Session. This session will feature virtualization experts Rick Scherer, Scott Lowe, Duncan Epping, Chad Sakac and Tom Howarth answering your questions on virtual infrastructure design. In the next week or so we will be posting sections on our blog sites for [...]
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