By Duncan Epping, on May 23rd, 2013%
Last week on twitter someone mentioned he received the error that he had less than two vSphere HA heartbeat datastores configured. I wrote an article about this error a while back so I asked him if he had two or more. This was the case, so next thing to do was to “reconfigure for HA” … … Continue reading →
“Number of vSphere HA heartbeat datastores less than 2 error, while having more?” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
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By Duncan Epping, on May 22nd, 2013%
I have this search column open on twitter with the term “software defined storage”. One thing that kept popping up in the last couple of days was a tweet from various IBM people around how SDS will change flash. Or let me quote the tweet: “What does software-defined storage mean for the future of #flash?” … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on May 14th, 2013%
Last week there was a question on VMTN about VM Monitoring sensitivity. I could have sworn I did an article on that exact topic, but I couldn’t find it. I figured I would do a new one with a table explaining the levels of sensitivity that you can configure VM Monitoring to. The question that … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on May 13th, 2013%
A while back I did this article on Storage DRS Interoperability. I had questions last week about this so I figured I would write a new article which reflects the current state (vSphere 5.1). I also included some details that are part of the interoperability white paper Frank and I did so that we have … … Continue reading →
“vSphere 5.1 Storage DRS Interoperability” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
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By Duncan Epping, on May 6th, 2013%
We had a discussion internally on static overhead memory. Coincidentally I spoke with Aashish Parikh from the DRS team on this topic a couple of weeks ago when I was in Palo Alto. Aashish is working on improving the overhead memory estimation calculation so that both HA and DRS can be even more efficient when … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on April 29th, 2013%
Last couple of weeks I heard people either asking questions around how tot limit a VM from an IOps perspective or making comments that Storage IO Control (SIOC) allows you to limit VMs. As I pointed at least three folks to this info I figured I would share it publicly. There is an IOps limit … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on April 9th, 2013%
I have been having these discussions with our engineering teams for the last year around guaranteed restarts of virtual machines in a cluster. In the current shape / form we use Admission Control to guarantee virtual machines are restarted. Today Admission Control is all about guaranteeing virtual machine restarts by keeping track of Memory and … … Continue reading →
“Guaranteeing availability through admission control, chip in!” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
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By Duncan Epping, on April 2nd, 2013%
One of our product managers asked me if I could share this survey with the world. The topic is vCenter Federation and APIs. It literally takes a couple of minutes to fill out. Your help / input is greatly appreciated, so please if you have those two minutes to spare at the end of the … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on March 26th, 2013%
Many of you probably have participated in one of the many beta programs VMware has offered in the last couple of years. I personally have participated in various beta programs when I was a customer / partner and I always loved going through the various exercises. The challenging part for me always was finding the … … Continue reading →
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By Duncan Epping, on March 22nd, 2013%
One of the things that many people have asked me is how they could check if their environment was meeting the requirements for an upgrade to 5.1. Until today I never really had a good answer for it but fortunately … Continue reading →
“Awesome Fling: vCenter 5.1 Pre-Install Check” originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow me on twitter – @DuncanYB.
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