vSphere-land.com is running it’s annual Top 25 virtualization blog survey again and I’m really interested to see who are picked this year. Like previous year, some great bloggers disappear while other new great ones emerge. One guy I want to mention by name is Chris Colotti, his blog is a great source of information about [...]

Recently an interesting question was raised about what happens if enough free space is available in the datastore cluster but not enough space is available per datastore during placement of a virtual machine. This scenario is often referred as a defragmented datastore cluster. The short answer is that if not enough space available on any [...]

Somebody asked me if VMFS3 multi-extents datastores are supported in a datastore cluster. Although they are supported and fully operational in Storage DRS, one must ask if this construct of large datastores should be used in a datastore cluster. Resource aggregation and flexibility Storage DRS Datastore clusters offer flexibility in adding and removing datastores dynamically [...]

We lowered the price of the vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical Deepdive book permanently. As of this week you can obtain one of the coolest books in the virtualization section at Amazon for only $19.95. 30 5-star reviews couldn’t be wrong. Here is just a random selection of two of those 5-star reviews: B. [...]