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:
An Important VMworld Announcement
This just in, I’m very proud to announce that Chad Sakac has asked me to join him in presenting TA8133 – Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware, at VMworld in San Francisco and Copenhagen. Needless to say I’m honored to be asked and uber excited to present this content. In fact we’ve […]
Free Book – vSphere on NetApp Best Practices
I’m pleased to announce that NetApp is giving away published copies of our vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices book! This offer is open to the first 1,000 eligible individuals who have a shipping address in the US or Canada. The vSphere on NetApp book has been extremely popular and now is your chance to […]
Data Deduplication and Data Compression in Data Ontap
Last week I published the post ‘Data Compression, Deduplication, & Single Instance Storage’ as a means to raise awareness around these different types of storage savings technologies and to provide some guidance as where each is best suited to be deployed. I’d like to thank all that chimed in to share their thoughts and knowledge […]