I got a couple of questions around what I have been up to lately as some noticed there was a slight decrease in volume from a blogging perspective on yellow-bricks. (from 4 articles per week to 2-3 article per week) Well I have been reading up on my new role but on top of that also started blogging for the [...]
Want a free HA/DRS Technical Deepdive Book? Watch vChat 15! In Episode 15 of our vChat series, we have a couple of special guests with us whom I’m sure you would have heard of or if not met before, Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping. These guys embody almost all things deep-dive when it comes to vSphere and with the recent [...]
During our session at the Dutch VMUG Frank was explaining Resource Pools and the impact of limits and reservations. As I had the feeling not everyone in the room was using resource pools I asked the following questions: How many people are using Resource Pools today? Out of the roughly 300 people who attended our session 80 showed their hands. [...]
Frank published the following yesterday, but as many people have asked me about this I thought I would post it as well. For those who were looking for a European distributor of our book: As of today, our book “vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive” can be ordered via ComputerCollectief. Computercollectief is a dutch computer book and software reseller [...]
I had question on my HA Deepdive which I thought was worth answering in an article: How does the active primary node decide where to restart failed VMs? Does it use a round-robin algorithm for selecting a host to start the VMs in restart priority order? What happens if the remaining nodes are imbalanced, especially without DRS enabled; are the [...]
In August we announced that we were working a secret project and let you guys in on it. The idea was to get it published through an official Publisher but due to several circumstances and a very tight deadline we decided to go the self-publishing route to make it available as soon as possible. So here it is, the moment [...]
I love blogging because of the discussions you some times get into. One of the bloggers I highly respect and closely follow is EMC’s vSpecialist Scott Drummonds (former VMware Performance Guru). Scott posted a question on his blog about what the size of a cluster should be. Scott discussed this with Dave Korsunksy and Dan Anderson, both VMware employee, and [...]
