New Storage DRS whitepaper available at VMware.com

May 13, 2013

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 ... Read More...

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Migrating datastore clusters by changing storage profiles in a vCloud

April 12, 2013

vCloud director 5.1 supports the use of both storage profiles and Storage DRS. One of the coolest features and unfortunately relatively unknown is the ability t... Read More...

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VCD and initial placement of virtual disks in a Storage DRS datastore cluster

February 13, 2013

Recently a couple of consultants brought some unexpected behavior of vCloud Director to my attention. If the provider vDC is connected to a datastore cluster an... Read More...

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Storage DRS Initial placement workflow

February 5, 2013

Last week I received the question how exactly Storage DRS picks a datastore. On a SDRS the initial placement of a vm is done on the weight calculated based on t... Read More...

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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.

January 21, 2013

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to edit the settings of a storage DRS clu... Read More...

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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.

January 21, 2013

Recently I have noticed an increase of tweets mentioning the error “Index was out of range” Error message: When trying to edit the settings of a storage DRS clu... Read More...

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Storage DRS survey

January 17, 2013

If you have a few spare minutes, please fill out the survey about Storage DRS usage. We are very interested in your Storage DRS architecture and which options y... Read More...

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Adding new disk to an existing virtual machine in a Storage DRS Datastore Cluster

January 11, 2013

Recently I had some discussions where I needed to clarify the behavior of Storage DRS when the user adds a new disk to a virtual machine that is already running... Read More...

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Why do you manually select a datastore while using Storage DRS?

January 10, 2013

On the community forums a couple of threads are active about the Storage DRS Automation level behavior when trying to manually migrate a virtual machine between... Read More...

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vSphere 5.1 web client: VM overrides -Storage DRS automation level overview

January 9, 2013

Overall the vSphere 5.1 web client attempts to mimic the behavior of menus and settings workflows of the (old) vSphere client. When editing the settings of a da... Read More...

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