vSphere 5 - APD gets a new friend PDL. (Virtual Geek)
In this webcast, I talked about “All Paths Down” or APD – an important storage state for the vmkernel – where all the paths to a known device are down, and it’s unknown whether it’s transient or...
View ArticleVM HA Laying a foundation for today and tomorrow (Virtual Geek)
With vSphere 5, VM HA gets a ground up re-write – which is, IMO long overdue. I can remember the first time I was playing in a home lab with VMware Infrastructure – the VM HA configuration wouldn’t...
View ArticleVMFS-5what you need to know in a nutshell. (Virtual Geek)
It’s new, and it’s good :-) VMFS-5 increases limits (without increasing extents) to 64TB. It enables 2TB+ RDMs. It uses a common allocation size of 1MB. It increases the small block allocations...
View ArticlevStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) vSphere 5 edition (Virtual Geek)
The vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) have had a huge impact in the VMware and Storage landscape. One of the truest tests (this was actually one of my MBOs in 2010!) was to see how many RFPs...
View Article5 is the magic number (Yellow Bricks)
Yes, here it is… the moment we’ve all been waiting for… vSphere 5.0. Finally announced today, and on top of that also new releases of vCD (1.5), SRM (5.0), vShield (5.0) and of course a new product...
View ArticleNew vSphere 5 Distributed vSwitch Settings with Screenshots (Kendrick Coleman)
The virtual distributed switch is making great leaps and bounds. Here are some of the new features with screen shots. Read more...
View ArticleNew vSphere 5 Distributed vSwitch Settings with Screenshots (Kendrick Coleman)
The virtual distributed switch is making great leaps and bounds. Here are some of the new features with screen shots. Read more...
View ArticleVMware Cloud Infrastructure Launch Today (vmwarewolf)
<img> <img>This morning at 9:00 AM Pacific, VMware announced vSphere 5 and their cloud infrastructure suite from a live webcast in San Francisco to thousands of employees, customers,...
View ArticlevSphere 5 edition of Top 10 Reasons Why EMC for VMware (Virtual Geek)
Get it while it’s hot
View ArticleRaising the Bar V = vSphere 5! (Virtual Geek)
Ah – I always love this period :-) Finally, I can speak freely about things that have been cooking for a long time (years!) This may sound whiny, but it’s actually hard keep a lid on things this cool,...
View ArticleHow to Enable Support for Nested 64bit & Hyper-V VMs in vSphere 5...
With the release of vSphere 5, one of the most sought out feature from VMware is the ability to run nested 64bit and Hyper-V guest virtual machines in a virtual ESXi instance. Previous to this, only...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Storage Features - Introduction (VMware vSphere Blog)
As of today, VMware officially launched the 5.0 release of vSphere. There were of course many new storage features announced, such as Storage DRS & Profile Driven Storage as well as many...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0 Datastore Clusters & VDI (myvirtualcloud.net)
I have been fortunate enough to be part of the vSphere 5 Beta program. vSphere 5 really raise the bar and implement a number of new features; mostly around automated management. I’m sure there will be...
View ArticleBye, bye Service Console (vspecialist)
This isn’t just another article about vSphere 5. It’s not my aim simply to rattle off a list of new and improved features. There are probably a plethora of those posts out there already, some better...
View ArticleLearn How to Run Your Business in the Cloud – Join VMware and Tier 3 for...
By: Matt Sarrel Tier 3 is putting on an interesting webinar, Learn How to Run Your Business in the Cloud, scheduled for tomorrow at 10am PT. The goal of the webinar is to help you learn how to apply...
View ArticleCisco Live 2011 – Day 1 (Jason's Nash's Blog)
Well, I made it! Today starts my first day at Cisco Live 2011 in Vegas. Some people have been here for a day or two but I didn’t take advantage of any of the pre-sessions and labs this year. I hope...
View ArticleStartup launches new SaaS cloud monitoring solution, RevealCloud (InfoWorld...
In the IT world, we're always looking for the next big thing, and for the last year or two, one of those next big things has been cloud computing. Unfortunately, numerous questions around the cloud...
View ArticlevSphere 5.0: Storage DRS introduction (Yellow Bricks)
Storage DRS is a brand new feature of vSphere 5.0. It has been one of my focus areas for the last 6 months and probably one of the coolest features of vSphere 5.0. Storage DRS enables you to aggregate...
View ArticleVMware’s Launch Event (blog.scottlowe.org)
Here's a quick summary of the products and features unveiled by VMware today in their launch event. More in-depth analysis and description will come in the near future.This article was originally...
View ArticlevSphere 5 What's New - Storage Appliance (VSA) (NTPRO.NL)
In vSphere 5.0, VMware has released a new storage appliance called VSA. VSA is an acronym for “vSphere Storage Appliance”. This appliance is aimed at our SMB (Small-Medium Business) customers who may...
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