The Product Management Team reached out to me this week and asked me if I could help getting some real world data around HA by posting some information about a survey. These surveys are generally used to priorities features or even add functionality. So if you want to contribute please take the survey. It will roughly take 4 minutes to [...]
Today someone asked a question about advanced settings for VM Monitoring which is probably the most underestimated feature of VMware HA. As the Availability Guide is not really clear on this I decided it was worth sharing. Below you can find the original question that was asked on the VMTN Forum: What is the point of having both of these [...]
For those who are not following Frank’s blog, he just posted a sneak peek of the upcoming vSphere Clustering book. It looks really really slick in full color. I promise you won’t be disappointed. Go to Frank’s article for more details.
A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the [...]
As Mr Sloof already revealed VMworld Public Voting started today… I have submitted multiple sessions, some which are directly job related and others which are more community focused. As I was part of the voting committee for the Technology and Architecture track I know how many great sessions were submitted and how difficult it will be to get your session [...]
No it isn’t a late April Fools’ joke… And we never expected this to actually happen to be honest. Last week I had discussion about the ebook on twitter and people were convinced that ebooks are the way to go. I won’t deny that and I know Frank agrees with me on this as well but the fact of the [...]
I had a discussion on the VMTN forums about this last week and the question basically was, what should my das.failuredetection time be set to when the isolation response is set to “Shut down”. Lets first explain what the das.failuredetectiontime is, I described it on our book as follows: Failure Detection Time is basically the time it takes before the [...]
