Stretched vCloud Director infrastructure

By Duncan Epping, on January 15th, 2013%

A while back I wrote about design considerations when designing or building a stretched vCloud Director infrastructure. Since then I have been working on a document in collaboration with Lee Dilworth, and this document should be out soon hopefully. As various people have asked for the document I decided to throw it in to this [...]

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Comments are closed   BC-DR, cloud, Miscellaneous, Server, stretched, vcloud director, vplex

Some questions about Stretched Clusters with regards to power outages

By Duncan Epping, on October 9th, 2012%

Today I received an email about the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster paper I wrote, or better said about stretched clusters in general. I figured I would answer the questions in a blog post so that everyone can chip in / Continue reading →

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Available now: vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)

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Comments are closed   BC-DR, Miscellaneous, Storage, stretched, stretched cluster, Various, vmsc, vsphere metro storage cluster

Stretched Clusters and Site Recovery Manager

By Duncan Epping, on March 23rd, 2012%

My colleague Ken Werneburg, also known as “@vmKen“, just published a new white paper. (Follow him if you aren’t yet!) This white paper talks about both SRM and Stretched Cluster solutions and explains the advantages and disadvantages of either. It provides a great overview in my opinion on when a stretched cluster should be implemented or when SRM makes more [...]

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Available now: vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)

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Permanent Device Loss (PDL) enhancements in vSphere 5.0 Update 1 for Stretched Clusters

By Duncan Epping, on March 16th, 2012%

In the just released vSphere 5.0 Update 1 some welcome enhancements were added around vSphere HA and how a Permanent Device Loss (PDL) condition is handled. The PDL condition is a condition that is communicated by the array to ESXi via a SCSI sense code and indicates that a device (LUN) is unavailable and more than likely permanently unavailable. This [...]

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