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Righting a wrong Wassup with VSI/SDRS/VASA?
At VMworld during session STO2980 (joint session with Vaughn from NetApp) there is a regular spot where we ask the audience for: Do you use the vendor vCenter plugins (EMC’s Virtual Storage Integrator...
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Software development is art. Not science.
Storagebod had an interesting post asking why software sucks and why we don’t just slow things down and wait until it’s done right. I’ve thoughts of my own not directly related to his post but of...
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vSphere Metro Storage Cluster – Uniform vs Non-Uniform
Last week I presented in Belgium at the quarterly VMUG event in Brussels. We did a Q&A and got some excellent questions. One of them was about vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) solutions and...
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OneFS 7.0 - Bringing Scale-Out into the Heart of the Data Center
It’s big. It’s awesome. Mavericks. OneFS 7.0. I couldn’t be more excited to write about a release that has been near and dear to my heart for the last year and a half. Immediately following the...
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A quick note on VNX VAAI NFS plugin for vSphere 5.1
From an internal EMC vSpecialist thread (I’m trying to push people to ALWAYS post to the “Everything VMware at EMC” community or some other “google crawled place” (like a blog, including this one) –...
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Working with CA signed certificates in your vSphere environment?
Are you working with CA signed certificates in your vSphere environment? You might want to check out these recently published KB articles. They will definitely help understanding the whole process...
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Bandwidth requirements for long distance vMotion
I received a question a while back about the bandwidth requirements for long distance vMotion, aka live migration across distance. I was digging through some of the KBs around stretched clusters and...
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VXLAN basics and use cases (when / when not to use it)
I have been getting so many hits on my blog for VXLAN I figured it was time to expand a bit on what I have written about so far. My first blog post was about Configuring VXLAN, the steps required to...
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VMFS File Sharing Limits increased to 32
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...
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How do I configure an HA vpxd.das advanced setting?
On the community forums someone asked a question around how to set “config.vpxd.das.electionWaitTimeSec”. I was looking at the documentation and it is indeed not really clear on what / where / how to...
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Resizing an IDE virtual disk, part two
A long time ago I wrote this article about resizing an IDE virtual disk. I just ran out of diskspace on my Windows 7 VM and I needed to increase the disk. Unfortunately the Windows 7 VM had and IDE...
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vSphere HA compatibility list, how do I check it?
Someone reported issues that in their environment VMs could not be restarted as there were no compatible hosts available. The relevant part of the error message was: N3Vim5Fault16NoCompatibleHostE I...
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Warning: Latest OS X updates causes issues with Fusion 5.0.x!
On the VMware VMTN Forums it is reported that VMware Fusion 5.0.x in combination with the latest OS X updates (MacBook Air and MacBook Pro Update 2.0) causes virtual machines to crash. This is...
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vSphere Metro Storage Cluster – Uniform vs Non-Uniform
Last week I presented in Belgium at the quarterly VMUG event in Brussels. We did a Q&A and got some excellent questions. One of them was about vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) solutions and...
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VMware Innovate magazine edition available for download!
Internally at VMware we have this cool magazine called “Innovate”. I am part of the team which is responsible for VMware Innovate. I noticed this tweet from Julia Austin and figured I would share it...
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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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Thinking about a stretched vCloud Director deployment
Lately I have been thinking about what it would take to deploy a stretched vCloud Director (vCD) infrastructure. “The problem” with a vCloud Director infrastructure is that there are so many moving...
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LTFS: Reflections in a Zilla’s eye.
Every now and then, but not as frequently as you’d imagine, I get asked about LTFS support so I was interested to read Chris Evans comments from IP Expo and have one or two quick comments of my own in...
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vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive only $17.95, limited time!
Frank and I decided to put the vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive (paper copy) up for sale for only $ 17.95. This is a limited offer (21st of December), so if you want to get yourself, your...
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Lotus: Killed by death.
‘Make him feel that he is dying.’ -Caligula Putting aside Gaius Caligula’s sadism in his instructions to the executioners of his victims, this week there are more than a few companies feeling like...
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