I am pleased to announce the availability of our new book, 'vSphere Design Considerations.' It's a crowd-sourced, pocket guide of tweet-length design considerations for VMware vSphere. This book is unique in terms of its format and that it provides infrastructure design considerations from the global aspect of the VMware community! Frank Denneman designed he concept of the book … [Read more...] about Announcing our New Crowd-Sourced vSphere Design Pocket Guide
Best Practices
VMware Updates Best Practices for vSphere on NFS
VMware with support form their storage alliance partners NetApp, EMC and HDS has updated their Best Practices for deploying vSphere with NFS datastores. The document provides direction in areas that are common among the NFS storage vendors . Content includes networking configuration options, interoperability with vSphere components and a number of advanced settings. … [Read more...] about VMware Updates Best Practices for vSphere on NFS
Heads up! Avoiding VMware vSphere ESXi 5 NFS Disconnect Issues
There is a problem that impacts our mutual customers running VMware ESXi 5 with NFS connectivity. While details are not finalized it appears the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have identified an issue with the NFS client in ESXi 5 stack and the NFS service in Data ONTAP that results in the two behaving badly with high I/O load, when SIOC is not in use. This … [Read more...] about Heads up! Avoiding VMware vSphere ESXi 5 NFS Disconnect Issues
VMworld 2012: BCO2982 Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM
This session was second of the two ‘community’ sessions I presented with Chad. The topic of this session is “Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM – when, why, where”. In many regards the technologies that comprise these offerings can be viewed as the “new protocol battle”. There are a number of technical considerations one needs to make before deciding on a technology or the use … [Read more...] about VMworld 2012: BCO2982 Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM
VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective. I’d like to thank Chad Sakac; over the past 4 or 5 years he and I have jointly presented at VMworld events and the feedback from these sessions has been outstanding. As I shared in … [Read more...] about VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices