During install vSphere now creates a VMFS partition by default on the local storage on which the service console partitions will be installed. When you want to use this partition to store your VMs on (non-VMotionable) there is no problem, just point to this datastore and use it. In my homelab the ESX hosts have […]
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(Presentation) Design tips for VMware vSphere 4
Recently at the Belgium VMUG I gave a presentation in which I covered some design tips for VMware vSphere 4. I talked about some business decisions that, how boring they may seem, are crucial for your design. I covered some security requirements you should check with the security department of the organisation and of course advised good […]
Presentation: Hyper-V vs ESX in the datacenter
This is the revisted version. My companies logo has been removed from the PDF’s of the presentations since we don’t publish reports like this in a way for example Gartner does. If you have been using the previous versions, please delete them and use these new ones without logo’s. In November 2008, I’ve written three […]
Harlem shuffle with VMDKs
Today I was brainstorming with Arnim van Lieshout about how to place all VMDKs on our LUNs, because right now we are facing two problems in our environment: No balancing of IO workloads across LUNs VMDKs often don’t fit nicely into the remaining LUNs space, so we lose a lot of GBs to unused space. […]
Hyper-V, not in my datacenter (part 3: Motions and storage)
In part 3 of this series, I want to shed a light on the difference between the types of Migration in ESX and Hyper-V and the differences in storage between the both of them. Although I think most of the readers know the differences, I will start with a brief summary. Hyper-V QuickMigration: When you […]