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At VMworld Europe I will participate in Meet the Expert sessions, Group discussions and three breakout sessions. Here’s an overview of my public schedule....
Virtual Machine Storage Profiles are used to identify the storage capabilities necessary in order to properly run the application within the virtual machine. VM...
vSphere 5.1 main user interface is provided by the web client, during beta testing I spend some time to get accustomed to the new...
Just a reminder as I received a lot of questions and comments about this: The new vMotion functionality – migrating virtual machines between host...
vSphere 5.1 vMotion enables a virtual machine to change its datastore and host simultaneously, even if the two hosts don’t have any shared storage...
In vSphere 5.1 you can configure the default (anti) affinity rule of the datastore cluster via the user interface. Please note that this feature...
Where previous versions of vSphere copied disks serially, vSphere 5.1 allows up to 4 parallel disk copies per Storage vMotion operation When you migrate...
One of the cool new features of Storage DRS in vSphere 5.1 is the datastore correlation detector used by the SIOC injector. Storage arrays...
Duncan and I released the vSphere 5.1 Clustering deepdive book this week. The book contains the new features of the vSphere 5.1 suite. We...
Disclaimer: I’m a technical advisor for CloudPhysics. I’m very happy to see CloudPhysics coming out of stealth mode this week and making their beta...