At the Dutch VMUG, together with my colleague Jos Vanaubel, I presented about how to do cheap disaster recovery using only PowerShell. At the London VMUG I held the same presentation again and promised to upload the scripts to my blog. Well, here it is in PDF format:
Changing NetApp storage policies from non-ALUA to ALUA
My latest customer was still running on VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 and asked me to upgrade their environment. Their whole environment was running on NetApp storage and for ESX there is a change in the Storage Array Type Policy (SATP) and the Path Selection Policy (PSP) when moving from ESX 3.5 to […]
Large Pages, Transparent Page Sharing and how they influence the consolidation ratio
Everybody talks about the benefits of Transparent Page Sharing in vSphere environments and how they reduce the amount of memory needed in your vSphere host. Thanks to Transparent Page Sharing memory overcommit in a production environment has become mainstream. Not long ago I’ve written these two posts: – “Memory overcommit in production” https://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/memory-overcommit-in-production-yes-yes-yes/ which explains […]
Book review: VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive
Many of you probably already heard about the book written by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman on the ins and outs of HA and DRS. In December I received my copy and I finally finished it and must say I’m quite impressed by what these guys have written. The book has a nice clean layout […]
Amsterdam vBeers: 16th Dec 2010
My fellow virtualization blogger Simon Long has organized a little vBeer get together for all virtualization specialists, fans or anyone seeking for a dry and warm place to talk to some fun people. From his blog: “The first Amsterdam vBeers will be held on Thursday 16th of December starting at 6:30pm in ‘Herengracht Cafe’ which […]