Duncan from Yellow-Bricks.com had a dream and in that dream Six great VMware minds would work together as one to help all VMware admins worldwide to build a better virtual infrastructure. Sounds like a fairytale doesn’t it? Well, this is one that isn’t too good to be true. Duncan really succeeded in writing a book […]
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Reclaiming unused VMDK space with storage thin provisioning
Storage thin provisioning can save space on a VMware Virtual Machine Disk File (VMDK), but reclaiming that space requires the use of tools described below. I have experimented with Virtual Machine Disk Format (VMDK) thin provisioning since the beta release of vSphere 4.0 as I don’t have much storage space to spare. Before we get […]
Hyper-V Live Migration for free, tough cookie for VMware
Today I was drawn to this blog post from Microsoft: Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate! (Free Live Migration/HA Anyone?). This post confirmed what was expected, Microsoft will be offering Live Migration for free when Hyper-V v2 will be released. This will sureley put some pressure on VMware vSphere pricing or not? If we […]
List of VMware FT (Fault Tolerant) compatible CPUs
With VMware vSphere there is a new exiting function called VMware Fault Tolerant or VMware FT. With VMware FT you can protect a VM against failure by running this VM in lockstep with an exact copy on a different host. Every interrupt in the source VM is immediately replicated to the destination VM, which is […]
Things that make you go hmmm !!! [vSphere what's new]
When working with the beta of vSphere, I of course saw a lot of new big features. But I thought I’d show you some little changes that take away some of the annoyance I had when working with VI3 or just improved the usability with just little changes.