On my blog article for yesterday “Rob M” commented that the default affinity rule for Storage DRS (SDRS), keep VM files together, did not make sense to him. One of the reasons this affinity rule is set is because customers indicated that from an operational perspective it would be easier if all files of a given VM (vmx / vmdk’s) [...]

I was just playing around in my lab and created a whole bunch of VMs when I needed to deploy to large virtual machines. Both of them had 500GB disks. The first one deployed without a hassle, but the second one was impossible to deploy, well not impossible for Storage DRS. Just imagine you had to figure this out yourself! [...]

Yes, it is that time of the year again… vSphere-land.com’s voting for the Top 25 Blogs worldwide has started again. I had the honor of placing 1st four consecutive times, but the competition is huge this year with excellent newcomers like Chris Colotti, scripting warriors like William Lam and Alan Renouf and of course my long time rival/friend Chad Sakac. I am [...]

A couple of weeks back I posted my session details for PEX. I just had a session added to my schedule which I wanted to inform you about. This session was originally hosted by no one less than Mike DiPetrillo. Chris Colotti and I have been asked to take over the session. Session 1262 (Wednesday 2/12 @ 12:30pm): DR of the Cloud and [...]

I had a discussion yesterday about why one would care about changing the “OS” type for a VM when it is upgraded, or even during the provisioning of a VM. I guess the obvious one is that a VM is “customized / optimized” based on this information from a hardware perspective. Another one that many people don’t realize is that [...]

** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** After my article this week about (ab) using the SRA provided through Site Recovery Manager to fail-over any LUN I expected some people reaching out to me with additional questions. One of the questions which came in more than once was [...]

** Disclaimer: This is for educational purposes, please don’t implement this in your production environment as it is not supported! ** Last week I received a question and I figured I would dive in to it this week. The question was if it is possible to fail-over LUNs using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) which are not part of the Cluster which [...]