Everything to do with virtualization, ESX, HyperV, Xen etc
Mar 08
VMware released VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.0 back in January. This is only the second major release of the comprehensive virtual environment system’s management solution, which VMware first introduced back in March 2011, but with this release VMware jumped its versioning from 1.0 to 5.0 in order to bring the product’s numbering into line …
Feb 02
I’m a bit behind on this, but VMware released a deep dive technical paper on the VSA solution that has been released. It can be downloaded from here
Feb 01
I’ve talked about VAAI a few times in my blog (such as VAAI implementation on the P2000 and vSphere), but what is it?
Jan 24
For those that don’t know, there is a vSphere 5 Best Practise Guide for HA available from VMware: http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vsphere-ha-5-best-practices-guide.pdf
Jan 19
VAAI (vStorage API for Array Integration) is one of the storage application programming interface (API) sets in vSphere which allows hardware offload, ESX/ESXi hosts perform certain operations faster and consume less server resources (more on VAAI in a later post). Let’s just say at this point, if your storage device supports it, implement the required …
