Upgrade vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5.1 to vCD 5.1.1?

By Duncan Epping, on January 7th, 2013%

One of my colleagues, Matthew Meyer, posted a list of cool videos he produced. These videos show how to upgrade vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5.0 to vCloud Director 5.1.1 running on vSphere 5.1.  Nice right?! Thanks Matt for creating Continue reading →

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vCloud Director and Storage DRS default Affinity

By Duncan Epping, on January 2nd, 2013%

I have had multiple discussions about Storage DRS default affinity internally and now saw this question on the VMTN Community Forums. It is a long question, but basically it comes down to this: What are the best practices for Storage Continue reading →

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VMFS File Sharing Limits increased to 32

By Duncan Epping, on November 6th, 2012%

I was reading this white paper about VMware View 5.1 and VMFS File Locking today. It mentions the 8 host cluster limitation for VMware View with regards to linked clones and points to VMFS file sharing limits as the cause Continue reading →

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

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Database clustering support for vCloud Director added in version 5.1!

By Duncan Epping, on October 18th, 2012%

Those who have been architecting vCloud Director environments from the early days know that this has always been a pain point. I personally have had many discussions with product management and engineering to get support for database clustering like Oracle … Continue reading →

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

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Update: VMware vCloud Director DR paper available in Kindle / iBooks format!

By Duncan Epping, on March 29th, 2012%

I just received a note that the DR paper for vCloud Director is finally available in both epub / mobi format. So if you have an e-reader make sure to download this format as it will render a lot better then a generic PDF! Description: vCloud Director disaster recovery can be achieved through various scenarios and configurations. This case study [...]

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

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