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I just saw an interesting article on Jason Boche's blog about VMware's recall of the new VAAI UNMAP primitive for vSphere 5. VMware released a new KB article KB2007427 documenting the details along with a recommendation to disable the VAAI UNMAP primitive for now (a patch will be released in the future to automatically disable this until the issue is resolved).One thing that caught my in the VMw...

One of the new features in vSphere 5.0 is Thin Provisioning Block Space Reclamation (UNMAP).  This was released as one part of a new VAAI primitive (the other component of the new primitive being thin provision stun). Today, VMware released KB 2007427 Disabling VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Space Reclamation (UNMAP) in ESXi 5.0. Due to varied response times from the storage devices, UNMAP comman...

In this video interview from VMworld 2011, TrainSignal talks with vExpert Justin Lauer of Tintri. In the video, Justin talks about… How Tintri is VM-aware storage Why it offer so much value for VMware and Storage Admins who use vSphere How Tintri is a hybrid disk system that offers superior dollar per VM value Big announcements from Tintri How Tintri offers end-to-end latency tracking a...

Following on from my previous post in this series where I showed how we could deploy vShield manager into our virtual infrastructure I thought I would take it one step further and show how we can use the vShield API’s within PowerShell to make some nice PowerShell advanced functions which will install the vShield services on our hosts. Forgetting about the functions for a moment this really do...

vSphere supports several command‐line interfaces for managing your virtual infrastructure including the vSphere Command‐Line Interface (vCLI), a set of ESXi Shell commands, and PowerCLI. You can choose the CLI set best suited for your needs, and write scripts to automate your CLI tasks.The vCLI command set includes vicfg- commands and ESXCLI commands. The ESXCLI commands included in the...

New white paper from VMware addressing some performance best practices has been released. You’ll find the setup being used in the test, the configuration of the network, hosts, the deployment method used for the VUM software and the different choices depending of size of virtual infrastructure. The different sections: - VUM Server Host deployment - Latenchy Overview - Resource consumptio...

Op woensdag 5 oktober wordt door Dustin Snijders van KPN Consulting het evenement “VMworld Zoetermeer 2011” georganiseerd en iedereen is van harte welkom. In het verlengde van VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, wordt gedurende dit evenement een overview gegevens van de belangrijkste vernieuwingen op het gebied van virtualisatie met behulp van VMware. Medewerkers van VMware Nederland alsmede Eri...

I just looked at the VMworld website and it seems that most sessions are filling up quickly, including my sessions. If you want to to attend these sessions make sure you schedule them rather sooner than later! These are my sessions: Tuesday 13:30 – EXPERTS-01  – Knowledge Experts One-on-One These are 15 minute one-on-one session where you will get the chance to ask me anything. So ...

A new video from VMware showing new features in VMware Fusion 4 In this video you’ll see the seamless integration between the MAC OS and VMware Fusion 4 and the Windows applications. Even if I have no MAC at home, It’s pretty impressive to see the fast switching between the desktops, the Unity mode which I know from VMware Workstation 8, and more. And what’s more, the VMware ...

During VMworld most people I talked to were either moving to ESXi or excited by the new features of vSphere 5 and were investigating what they would need to do to upgrade and get the latest and greatest. Those who attended the Hands on Lab were lucky enough to grab a poster bought to you by VMware Technical Marketing, this year VMware were giving out two posters, the first is the “VMware Manag...

Comparing Flash website user experience between View and Xen Desktop. I just found this newly published video on YouTube. This video was done by VMware and shows you the user experience, side by side, between VMware View v 5.0 and Xen Desktop v 5.5. Three different tests are showed in this video. 1) youtube Flash video 2) Windows Media Player 3) embedded Flash on a website. UPDATE: The source ...

The Virtual Storage Guy Blog has moved. Please update your RSS reader or app: http://virtualstorageguy.com/feed/ From my customer conversations of late, there appears a trend developing. The desire for and confidence in the ability to virtualize Oracle Database are on the rise. I don’t mean to imply that customers aren’t seeking to virtualize other business critical applications...

The Virtual Storage Guy Blog has moved. Please update your RSS reader or app: http://virtualstorageguy.com/feed/ From my customer conversations of late, there appears a trend developing. The desire for and confidence in the ability to virtualize Oracle Database are on the rise. I don’t mean to imply that customers aren’t seeking to virtualize other business critical applications...

The Virtual Storage Guy Blog has moved. Please update your RSS reader or app: http://virtualstorageguy.com/feed/ The goal was to supass last year’s event and to raise money for a worthy cause.The location was selected.The stands were packed with spectators.Each team exuded the competitive nature of it’s players.The tournament began and the games were played with unbridled feroci...

The Virtual Storage Guy Blog has moved. Please update your RSS reader or app: http://virtualstorageguy.com/feed/ The goal was to supass last year’s event and to raise money for a worthy cause.The location was selected.The stands were packed with spectators.Each team exuded the competitive nature of it’s players.The tournament began and the games were played with unbridled feroci...

If you have a vSphere 5.0 environment backed by a storage array (SAN) which supports multipathing over two or more active front end ports (or if you have an array with ALUA support), you may be interested in using VMware’s Round Robin PSP (Path Selection Policy) to distribute storage I/O evenly across multiple fabrics and/or fabric paths.  One of the benefits with the Round Robin PSP is t...

I would like to ask all of you to look at this Survey for Site Recovery Manager. This survey is closing on the 30th of September already, so if you have a couple of minutes left please fill it out! Here’s the link: http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?E5C1ADB7E3A2B4BEE1 "Help needed: SRM Survey" originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Availabl...

In this video interview from VMworld 2011, Lane Leverett, VCDX #53, talks with TrainSignal about… VMworld 2011 Keynote – AppBlast, Project Octopus VMworld 2011 Sessions – Don Mann’s session on 10G Ethernet, Brian Madden’s session on VDI vs Terminal Services How he first got into virtualization and what his advice is to future VMware admins including the importantan...

In this interview by TrainSignal, we interviewed vExpert, VCP, and blogger Greg Stuart of vDestination.com. Greg talks about his experience at VMworld 2011, the VMworld labs, the vExpert meeting at VMworld, his VMworld swag bag contest (enter to win a vNerd shirt and TrainSignal vSphere 5 video!), and his vExpert corner video interviews. To keep up to date with Greg, visit his blog – vDes...

There will be a french vBeers get together in Copenhagen. VMworld Copenhagen 2011 is behind the doors. The event will be held the 17-20 October 2011 At Bella Center Copenhagen. If you did not reserved your place to be there, you can do so at the official VMworld.com website here. If you’re french speaking (because that’s the condition to come… -:), you can join us at this fir...

This week our fellow blogger, Sander Martijn, felt he had to vMotion  to a new career opportunity. After working for Centric for 8 years, he has accepted a new challenge and signed a  contract at Nspyre in the Netherlands. Sander, congratulations from the rest of the VMGuru.nl crew. Although Sander is going to switch employers, [...] by Edwin Weijdema

I stumbled across this while rummaging through the vSphere 5.0 Installation and Setup document.  Page 183 contains a small section (new in vSphere 5.0) which describes a process to enable database monitoring for Microsoft SQL Server (surrounding pages discuss enabling the same for other supported database platforms).  The SQL script provided in the documentation contains an error on the first ...

In this video interview, Doug Hazelman (@VMDoug), Vice President of Product Strategy at @Veeam, is interviewed at VMworld 2011. Doug talks about what will be coming in Veeam Backup and Replication version 6, the v6 replication and distributed architecture, that there is more to it than just Hyper-V support, the “real-failback” option for DR, Veeam’s support for vSphere 5, how B...

Live from VMworld 2011, David interviews the distinguished Mr Nigel Cook, HP Cloud System Technical Architect and Designer of the HP Cloud System Matrix. The HP Cloud System Matrix can offer businesses of all sizes Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In the video, Nigel talks about what turns a “virtual infrastructure” into a “private cloud”, when you should consider imp...

vSphere 5 introduces a new latency-aware Metro vMotion feature that not only provides better performance over long latency networks but also increases the round-trip latency limit for vMotion networks from 5 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds. Previously, vMotion was supported only on networks with round-trip latencies of up to 5 milliseconds. In vSphere 4.1, vMotion is supported only when the...