You’ve probably also noticed a whole bunch of Site Recovery Manager(SRM) related articles popping up with people installing and configuring it in their home lab:
Site recovery Manager is a hit
VMware SRM with Lefthands VSA
SRM in a Box final release (the complete setup)
VI,SRM in a box(VMTN Blog)
I love these articles because they are prove of the [...]
There has been a lot of hassle on this one over the last couple of days. Symantec wasn’t supporting VMotion for their anti-virus suite. (Mike D., Lone SysAdmin, VInternals)A little birdie just told me that the article has been updated:
Is VMware VMotion ESX server supported with Symantec AntiVirus and Symantec Endpoint Protection?
Symptoms:
Symantec supports running [...]
I received this question a couple of times and there’s no real definitive answer written anywhere…
“Does storage vmotion require additional disk space on the source volume?”
The answer is: Yes it does. Storage VMotion uses the snapshot technology to release the lock on the source disk. This snapshot is placed on the source volume. So in [...]
About a week ago Eric Sloof wrote about Datacenter Analyzer(RDA) by a company called Replicate Technologies. I think his blog title is a great caption of the product “RDA Rocks”. It does indeed.
The one thing that really stands out is the simplicity of implementing the product, their website claims 30 minutes and that’s exactly what [...]
I was just rebuilding my “ESX in a box” setup. I wanted to install an iSCSI Virtual San Appliance but why should I? Your answer probably is: well because you need shared storage to do a VMotion / HA / DRS etc. Yes you are completely right I do need shared storage to have these [...]
VMware Wolf is generating some awesome blogposts lately:
Common system management issues in VMware Infrastructure
Common Network issues in VMware Infrastructure
Common Licensing issues in VMware Infrastructure
All the blog posts contain a downloadable html file with a grid. The grid contains problems followed by possible resolutions.
Great blog posts and very useful information, visit VMware Wolfs blog and download [...]
I wrote about RVTools 2.0 a month ago and suggested a couple of additions. Rob picked these suggestions by me and a couple of my readers up and started implementing them in his tool. Here’s the release notes for this new version:
Version 2.1 (November 2008)
Overall performance improvements.
New vInfo tab. The “vInfo” tab displays for each [...]
