I received this Paper a while back and think it is an excellent read. I just copied a random part of the paper to give you an idea of what it covers. There’s not much more to say about it then just read it, it is as in-depth as it can get on FT. I read it several times by [...]
Early 2009 I wrote an article on the impact of Primary Nodes and Secondary Nodes on your design. This was primarily focussed on Blade environments and basically it discussed how to avoid having all your primary nodes in a single chassis. If that single chassis would fail, no VMs would be restarted as one of the primary nodes is the [...]
I was discussing something with one of my former colleagues a couple of days ago. He asked me what the impact was of running VMware View in an environment without HA. To be honest I am not a View SME, but I do know a thing or two about HA/vSphere in general. So the first thing that I mentioned was [...]
I guess there are a couple of keypoints I will need to stress for those creating designs: New HA maximums 32 host clusters 320 virtual machines per host 3,000 virtual machines per cluster In other words: you can have 10 hosts with 300 VMs each or 20 hosts with 150 VMs each or 32 with 93 VMs…. as long as you [...]
I just wanted to let you know that vSphere 4.1 has been released and is available to download. No point in me rehashing the same “what’s new” info everyone is rehashing today and probably the rest of the week. Expect some more detailed blogs coming up over the course of the upcoming weeks.
My colleague Craig Risinger wrote the below and was kind enough to share it with us. Thanks Craig! A quick primer on VMware Reservations (not that anyone asked)… A Reservation is a guarantee. There’s a difference between reserving a resource and using it. A VM can use more or less than it has reserved. Also, if a reservation-holder isn’t using all [...]
I just received a request from our Product Management team. Gil Adato is is working on the next generation of DPM and is seeking DPM current and past users and he asked me to post the following message on my blog. I hope you can help Gil and VMware taking DPM to the next level! Dear VMware Customers, Product management is [...]
