I’m sure anyone who ends up at my tiny little blog, will already be familliar with the brilliant virtualgeek virtualization blog by Chad Sakac.
Even though you may have already seen this I thought it was still worth a mention, this kind of integration with VMware is a perfect example of why I think EMC arrays are used more than [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 26, 2009
EMC Navisphere now VMware aware
July 17, 2009
vSphere 4.0 with Software iSCSI and 2 Paths
One thing about the ISCSI initiator in 3.x was even with 2x adapters bound to the vSwitch, the iSCSI adapter would only ever show a single path to the lun, and the only time it would use the secondary adapter is if the primary one failed.
Now something I noticed in the new vSphere iSCSI SAN [...]
July 16, 2009
vSphere Datastore naming
Something Ive noticed each time Ive installed vSphere now is the naming convention for the local VMFS partition created at the time of install has gone back to just storage1 apposed to <servername>:storage1
I remember back in 3.0.x days it was like this and I believe the change come around 3.5 where the server name was [...]
July 12, 2009
VMware vCenter Mobile Access Up and Running
I blogged a short time ago about VMware’s virtual appliance “vCenter Mobile Access”, below are some of the points explaining what it lets you do from the comfort of your very own phone.
Search for virtual machines in your data center
Migrate virtual machines from one host to another using vMotion
Execute recovery plans using VMware Site Recovery [...]
July 11, 2009
Storage from the old days
I was going through an old box of computer parts I had laying around the other day and come across this BEAST.
A closer look I hear you say ?
Yip that’s right 1275 MB’s of storage. Now the funny thing was I pulled this out of a PC before I sold it because I couldn’t afford [...]
July 11, 2009
Locking down VMware tools
If you look a couple of posts back you ll see that Ive been doing some hardening of the ESX service console, this week I thought id post about some of the changes Ive made to A. To my production virtual machines already built, and B. To the templates to ensure any machines deployed from [...]
