Thought I’d share the following from vSphere, pretty useful from an architectural point of view: VMware vCloud Director Infrastructure Resiliency Case Study Cloud Infrastructure Architecture Case Study
Tag Archive: vSphere
Jan 19
VAAI comes to the P2000
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 …
Jun 01
Exchange 2010 – DAG & HA/DRS
It used to be if you introduced DAG’s into a virtual Exchange 2010 environment then you’d have to disable HA/DRS as that could cause all sorts of issues, oh, and wasn’t supported by Microsoft, a big problem i’d say, but now DAG’s are supported in this scenario! The following support scenarios are being updated, for …
May 31
vSphere cluster – Cluster Operational Status
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but under the summary tab on a vSphere cluster is a little used link called ‘Cluster Operational Status’. This pops up a nice window that shows you any configuration issues that are occuring within the cluster, a nice easy snapshot of what problems there are, if any, if the screen …
Feb 04
VMware Communities: vSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide (draft)
Deploying vSphere 4.1? Concerned about security and unsure where to look? VMware Communities: vSphere 4.1 Security Hardening Guide (draft).