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 of VMs.As you may imagine, this works very well when your … [Read more...] about VMware HA, VM-Host Affinity Rules, and how they apply with Metrocluster
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: … [Read more...] about Updated: vSphere on NetApp Storage Best Practices v2.1
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 already begun creating and compiling content. This session will … [Read more...] about An Important VMworld Announcement
Have Your Questions Asked at the VMworld Storage SuperHeavy Weight Challenge
We are just weeks away from VMworld 2010 in San Francisco, and we need your help with the Storage Super Heavyweight Challenge (breakout session TA8623). The hosts of this session Tom Howarth & Cody Bunch are seeking your input and interests regarding the topics discussed in this session. What questions would you like to see posed to the panel?Please post your questions as a … [Read more...] about Have Your Questions Asked at the VMworld Storage SuperHeavy Weight Challenge
NFS, VMware, and Unintended Consequences!
When it comes to storage interconnects for VMware deployments I'm rather biased; unified multi-protocol storage platforms like NetApp FAS should be the ONLY consideration for any sizable installation. Unified multi-protocol platforms allow for customers to receive the benefits of both NAS (NFS) and SAN (FC, FCoE, iSCSI) based connectivity from a single array. Once one collapses … [Read more...] about NFS, VMware, and Unintended Consequences!