One Day Remaining to Vote for the Top VMware Virtualization Blogs
Only one day remains for avid blog readers to cast their votes for the top 25 VMware / virtualization based blogs. vSphere-Land (aka Eric Seibert) has been running this poll for the past few years and the number of blogs nominated have grown immensely over this period of time. In fact, this year’s poll contains […]
VMworld 2010: Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge Video
At long last, I was able to find a video copy of the panel session TA8623, the Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge. Thanks to Simon Seagrave for the recording and posting the video. This session was very rewarding on multiple levels, first it was a reunion of sorts for Adam, Eric, Chad, and I (we contributed […]
Find the vExpert at VMworld 2010
If you are attending VMworld you will have an number of opportunities to win a Flip HD Video Camera, an iPad, or a Gift Card from the NetApp Prize Patrol. Monday through Thursday of next week, NetApp will be promoting “Find the vExpert” via tweets posted by @NetApp, @VMworld, @VMware, @CiscoSystems, @jtroyer (and possibly even […]
VMware HA, VM-Host Affinity Rules, and how they apply with Metrocluster
Duncan Epping of VMware and Yellow-Bricks has posted a nice write up on running VMware on a NetApp MetroCluster with VM-Host Affinity Rules (new in vSphere 4.1). In summary this new capability allows one to restrict the boundaries of HA capabilities to a limited number of ESX/ESXi hosts within a HA cluster for a set […]
Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
Quick heads up, our VMware vSphere on NetApp: Storage Best Practices Technical Report TR-3749 version 2.1 has been released. Here’s a quick summary of what’s new in version 2.1: