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VMAX and vSphere VAAI XCOPY update!
All – as everyone is realizing, while “VAAI support” is a tickbox for storage vendors – vendor implementations vary wildly, and that means different things all over the place. I’ve done a series of...
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Does IT Need A New Concierge?
There's a new business model brewing in the ranks of the enterprise IT marketplace. In some ways it's a new idea; in other ways it's a linear extension of familiar concepts. As with any emerging...
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VMware Technical Journal, pick it up!
VMware just published the second VMware Technical Journal. This winter edition contains great publications on topics like vProbes, Paravirtual vRDMA Devices, Cloud Tenant UI design process, Storage...
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Thanks For The Chocolate
Perhaps a better title for this post is "Why More Data Is A Good Thing". As we engage with our customers around big data analytics, one of the harder points to get across is why more data can lead...
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Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service, SSL certificate verification failed
I ran in to this error today that the ssl certificate verification failed. Or to be more precise: Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service. SSL certificate verification failed. I had been playing...
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Corporate Communities, Large and Small
Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about communities, and the different kinds of communities that are needed in a corporate environment today. Working through this in my head helped me...
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Death to false myths: The type of virtual disk used determines your performance
I was reading Eric Sloof’s article last week about how the disk type will impact your performance. First of all, let me be clear that I am not trying to bash Eric here… I think Eric has a valid point,...
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Win A free copy of the ‘VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials’, just by leaving a...
*** CONTEST CLOSED, winners will receive an email *** For the contest we have two copies of VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials to be given away to two lucky winners. How you can win: To win your copy of...
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Survey Time: vSphere FT
If you have a couple of spare minutes… please fill out this survey about vSphere FT, it would be very helpful for our Product Management team. It takes about 10 minutes to get through. "Survey Time:...
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Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster
I had this question yesterday where the error “Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster” comes from. And although it is hopefully clear to all of my regular readers this is...
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Should I use many small LUNs or a couple large LUNs for Storage DRS?
At several VMUGs I presented a question that always came up was the following: “Should I use many small LUNs or a couple of large LUNs for Storage DRS? What are the benefits of either?” I posted about...
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Death to false myths: Admission Control lowers consolidation ratio
Death to false myths probably sounds a bit euuhm well Dutch probably, or “direct” as others would label it. Lately I have seen some statements floating around which are either false or misused. One of...
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Death to false myths: Storage IO Control = Storage DRS IO load balancing
I often hear people making comments around Storage IO Control and Storage DRS IO Load Balancing being one and the same thing. It has been one of those myths that has been floating around for a long...
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VMware Technical Journal, pick it up!
VMware just published the second VMware Technical Journal. This winter edition contains great publications on topics like vProbes, Paravirtual vRDMA Devices, Cloud Tenant UI design process, Storage...
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Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service, SSL certificate verification failed
I ran in to this error today that the ssl certificate verification failed. Or to be more precise: Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service. SSL certificate verification failed. I had been playing...
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Death to false myths: The type of virtual disk used determines your performance
I was reading Eric Sloof’s article last week about how the disk type will impact your performance. First of all, let me be clear that I am not trying to bash Eric here… I think Eric has a valid point,...
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Using ESXTOP to check VAAI primitive stats
Yesterday a comment was made around a VAAI primitive on my article about virtual disk types and performance. In this case “write same” was mentioned and the comment was about how it would not be used...
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Stuff your predictions.
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. --Terry Pratchett Yes my friends, it’s that time of year where all the self serving lists of tech predictions appear. The question I have is...
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Renaming virtual machine files using SvMotion back in 5.0 U2
I have been pushing for this heavily internally together with Frank Denneman and it pleases me to say that it is finally back… You can rename your virtual machine files again using Storage vMotion as...
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vCenter Server 5.1.0b released
I was doing some testing with vCenter Server 5.1.0b this Wednesday and Thursday and just noticed it was released today. Those who were experiencing time-out issues with the web client or were unable...
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