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Recently I received the question if you can connect multiple compute (HA and DRS) clusters to a single Storage DRS datastore cluster and specifically...
I/O Analyzer v1.1 is now live on the Flings site: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer I/O Analyzer is a virtual appliance tool for measuring storage performance. This version...
By default Storage DRS applies an Intra-VM affinity rule to all new virtual machines in the datastore cluster. The Intra-VM affinity rule keeps the...
In its basic form Storage DRS can be used together with any array, however there are a few combinations of Storage array features and...
Lately I have received many questions about the interoperability between HA and affinity rules of DRS and Storage DRS. I’ve created a table listing...
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...
Recently an interesting question was raised about what happens if enough free space is available in the datastore cluster but not enough space is...
Somebody asked me if VMFS3 multi-extents datastores are supported by Storage DRS. Although they are supported and fully operational in Storage DRS, one must...
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...
This article is a part of the series on architecture and design on datastore clusters. This article zooms in on why it’s recommended to...
