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New Storage DRS whitepaper available at VMware.com

Last Friday my last and latest whitepaper about Storage DRS was published on VMware.com. Go to http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10363 and download the whitepaper:...
frankdenneman
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Migrating datastore clusters by changing storage profiles in a vCloud

vCloud director 5.1 supports the use of both storage profiles and Storage DRS. One of the coolest features and unfortunately relatively...
frankdenneman
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VCD and initial placement of virtual disks in a Storage DRS datastore cluster

Recently a couple of consultants brought some unexpected behavior of vCloud Director to my attention. If the provider vDC is connected...
frankdenneman
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Storage DRS Initial placement workflow

Last week I received the question how exactly Storage DRS picks a datastore. On a SDRS the initial placement of a...
frankdenneman
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Storage DRS Cluster shows error "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to...
frankdenneman
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Storage DRS Cluster shows error "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to...
frankdenneman
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Storage DRS survey

If you have a few spare minutes, please fill out the survey about Storage DRS usage. We are very interested in...
frankdenneman
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Adding new disk to an existing virtual machine in a Storage DRS Datastore Cluster

Recently I had some discussions where I needed to clarify the behavior of Storage DRS when the user adds a new...
frankdenneman
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Why do you manually select a datastore while using Storage DRS?

On the community forums a couple of threads are active about the Storage DRS Automation level behavior when trying to manually...
frankdenneman
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vSphere 5.1 web client: VM overrides -Storage DRS automation level overview

Overall the vSphere 5.1 web client attempts to mimic the behavior of menus and settings workflows of the (old) vSphere client....
frankdenneman
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