A rather contentious title for a post, but there are a few things on the storage front that have been bugging me lately. The body of this post will probably have very little to do with storage, just bear with me on this little derailed train of thought.
The most common thing we see around the [...]
I really wanted to keep this blog strictly technical, but alas I’m going to have to indulge in some ranting philosophy on at most a weekly basis. Hence a new post category, which is a rather poor wordplay on the abbreviated form of “what’s up”. I couldn’t think of anything classier unfortunately.
But with a GTA [...]
OK, so I’ve been giving the VC devs a _bit_ of a hard time lately. So just to show I’m as quick to dish out praise as I am to dish out flames, I wanted to say damn good job on the VI plugin architecture!
I have been eagerly awaiting some official documentation surrounding VI plug-in [...]
EEEK! In my original post on the VC 2.5 Update 1 upgrade process, I incorrectly stated that the VC database user needs full sysadmin on the database server for the upgrade, and pondered why that was the case. Well it turns out that is entirely NOT the case at all!
Had I RTFM, I would [...]
Even with VMware Consolidated Backup and the release of VMware Site Recovery Manager around the corner, there is still a (gaping) hole left by these 2 products – the ability to failover a single guest to a regularly sync’ed and otherwise offline DR partner.
In the physical world there were 2 main reasons to invoke DR [...]
It seems Microsoft have ditched the ability to use a parallel SCSI device as a shared disk resource in Windows Server 2008 failover clusters, which now require a SAS, FC or iSCSI LUN for the job.
I have yet to work somewhere that clustered a lot of VMs, but potentially this and the ‘one physical node [...]
Well what can I say… the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days – they’re back!
Once again, the VirtualCenter upgrade process is the equivalent of a full uninstall and reinstall. Someone better let the developers of the VMware management tools suite (or at least whoever writes the installers) that VMware are supposed to be [...]
