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In order to monitor some load behavior I needed to increase the logging level of the vCenter server. The logging level still is included...
Recently I was asked why Storage DRS was missing a “Partially Automated mode”. Storage DRS has two automation levels, no automation (Manual Mode) and...
During a recent meeting the behavior of Storage DRS device modeling was discussed. When I/O load balancing is enabled, Storage DRS leverages the SIOC...
The behavior of thin provisioned disk VMDKs in a datastore cluster is quite interesting. Storage DRS supports the use of thin provisioned disks and...
To get a datastore cluster to surface a (user-defined) storage capability, all datastores inside the datastore cluster must be configured with the same storage...
If you haven’t seen Storage DRS in action, check out the Storage DRS demo I’ve created for VMwareTV. Get notification of these blogs postings...
This article shows you how to create a VM to Host affinity rule using the new webclient. 1. Select host and clusters in the...
Today the technical paper “VMware vCloud Director Resource Allocation Models” has been made available for download on VMware.com. This whitepaper covers the allocation models...
Mentioned in part-1 of the Storage DRS and VM Storage Profiles series, Storage DRS expects “storage characteristics –alike” datastores inside a single datastore cluster....
In my previous article about how to configure storage profiles using the web client I stated that different storage profiles could be assigned to...
