Last night VMworld has opened up the list of sessions that have been submitted for public voting. You can now browse through the list and give a ‘thumbs up’ for the session you would like to be presented at VMworld. I have entered one session myself: “1335 – Health Check of Your vSphere Environment“. This session will […]
Dependent hardware iSCSI adapter on ESXi5
Most customers I work with use FC connections to their EMC storage we’ve sold them, but today I was with a customer who has a complete DELL setup and used iSCSI to connect to their Dell Equallogic PS4000E storage over a set of Dell PowerConnect switches. I was asked to configure the dependent hardware iSCSI […]
New design for GabesVirtualWorld
After running the “Private Investigator” design, a film noir theme, for almost 2 years, it was time for a redesign. I asked my good twitter friend Jenneke van Wijngaarden (@JennekePenneke) for help and ideas. Jenneke is well known for her graffiti art on walls and paintings, but she had never before created a design for a […]
Discover game changing replication for vSphere VMs
(Copied from the Veeam announcement) Need to change your disaster recovery practices? Join VMware vExpert Gabrie van Zanten, a principal consultant at Open Line for this LIVE webinar and discover how a strong replication strategy will improve your DR practices. Gabrie van Zanten is a VMware virtualization expert, the author on his ownweblog Rick Vanover, […]
VMware HA Admission Control and VM reservations
Did you know about VMware HA admission control coupled to VM reservations? To be honest I thought I knew, but recently I was pointed to some details that showed me I was wrong. What I’m talking about is the cluster setting of “HA Admission Control” and how “Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity” […]