by Duncan Epping
Duncan Epping · ·
We need you!! Well if you got a preview copy of the vSphere Quick Start Guide that is. We are currently doing a final review of the book before it will be publicly available. We have read it so many times that we know the text by heart which makes proofreading really tough. If you managed to pick up a preview copy and noticed any mistakes / typos please let us know asap.
For those who were not able to pick one up please be patient. I will inform you about the official release date soon.
Duncan Epping · ·
This was probably one of the coolest sessions of VMworld. Irfan Ahmad was the host of this session and some of you might know him from Project PARDA. The PARDA whitepaper describes the algorithm being used and how the customer could benefit from this in terms of performance. As Irfan stated this is still in a research phase. Although the results are above expectations it’s still uncertain if this will be included in a future release and if it does when this will be. There are a couple of key take aways that I want to share:
That’s it for now… I just wanted to make a point. There’s a lot of cool stuff coming up. Don’t be fooled by the lack of announcements(according to some people, although I personally disagree) during the keynotes. Start watching the sessions, there’s a lot of knowledge to be gained!
Duncan Epping · ·
I was just replaying Banjot Chanana’s session “VMware Availability Solutions and Futures“. Banjot is the product manager for the availability solutions HA and FT. I met Banjot in Palo Alto the week before VMworld and we spoke about HA, present and futures. Unfortunately I can’t elaborate on anything that has been discussed but I can however repeat what Banjot spoke about during his session at VMworld.
The most exciting part of the presentation, for me at least, start at roughly 35:40. Banjot start to elaborate on futures especially when the 3D model gets expanded with “Stretched Clusters with FT” and “Stretched HA Clusters” I start to get interested. Some bullet points on future developments:
Although some people were disappointed by the lack of announcements of new products I think there’s more than enough exciting features coming up if you know where to find them. Thanks Banjot for these insights,
Duncan Epping · ·
I was just listening to “BC3197 – High Availability – Internals and Best Practices” by Marc Sevigny. Marc is one of the HA engineers and is also my primary source of information when it comes to HA. Although most information can be found on the internet it’s always good to verify your understanding with the people who actually wrote it.
During the session Marc explains, and I’ve written about in this article, that when a dual host failure occurs the global startup order is not taking into account. The startup order will be processed per host with the current version. In other words “Host a” first with taking startup order into account and then “Host B” with taking startup order into account.
During the session however Marc revealed that in a future version of HA global startup settings(Cluster based) will be taken into account for any number of host failures! Great stuff, another thing to mention is that they are also looking into an option which would enable you to pick your primary hosts. For blade environment this will be really useful. Thanks Marc for the insights,
Duncan Epping · ·
One of the biggest resources of information for me personally always has been the VMworld Presentations. I usually download every single presentation and store them in a separate folder and index them and read most of them at least once and some of them multiple times. The VMworld 2009 Sessions are available for download and I recommend you start reading/listening/watching them.
There are three that I want to highlight this time:
Start downloading here, if you did not attend VMworld 2009, you can always purchase a VMworld.com Subscription for full access to all VMworld 2009 Sessions & Labs. I think it’s worth it.