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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...
We are long time fascinated by the whole Black Friday and Cyber Monday craze in the USA. Unfortunately we do not celebrate Thanksgiving in...
The last two years I enjoyed working as an architect within the PSO organization of VMware, designing and reviewing the most interesting virtual infrastructures...
Last couple of weeks I’ve been receiving questions about vSphere HA FDM agent in a mixed cluster. When upgrading vCenter to 5.0, each HA...
The first article in the series about architecture and design decisions series focuses on the connectivity of the datastores within the datastore cluster. Connectivity...
Storage DRS extends the DRS feature set to the storage space. The primary element used by SDRS is a datastore cluster. Introducing the concept...
During VMworld I noticed a lot of focus of the attendees was on the IO load balancing features of Storage DRS (SDRS), however SDRS...
One of the cool “under the hood” improvements vSphere 5 offers is the sliding scale function of the Mem.MinFreePct. Before diving into the sliding...
Among many new cool features introduced by vSphere 5 is the new VMFS file system for block storage. Although vSphere 5 can use VMFS-3,...
There are some fundamental changes to vMotion scalability and performance in vSphere 5.0 one is the multi-nic support. One of the most visible changes...
