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My Crystal Ball for 2013.
Warning. These “top forecasts for the next year” from all sources, are always a load of hoo-haa – and mine is no exception :-) If any of us truly had a crystal ball – we’d likely be doing something...
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The Big Picture
This year, I was very honored to receive multiple invitations to speak at customer events. Many of the larger IT organizations EMC works with have their own internal kickoffs for the new year....
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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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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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TechPubs youtube videos
I just noticed these 3 cool TechPubs youtube videos, the techpubs channel has been around for a while and I have been enjoying their videos a lot. Recently a couple of new videos were released and I...
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Using VAAI ATS capable array and VMFS-5?
If you are using a VAAI ATS capable array and VMFS-5 you might want to read this KB Article. The article describes a situation where it is impossible to mount VMFS volumes when they were formatted...
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Cisco Acquires Cloupia: No Such Thing As Too Many Choices
Last week’s announcement that Cisco has acquired Cloupia is one that I was excited about on a number of levels. First, the Cloupia team, including Raju Penmetsa, their CTO and Raju Datla, their CEO...
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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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