As you maybe aware, next week sees the start of VMWorld 2013 in San Francisco. VMware will also be launching their new products live using their VMware NOW Live Launch Event. You can register for the event using the following link: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=666471&sessionid=1&key=6B956A18610ED4B9B1D1F36C8AE7250F&sourcepage=register Here is also a countdown to the event: [purehtml id=1]
We’ve now gone screaming into August and VMworld US is just around the corner. Although I’m not attending VMworld US this year – need to work on my funding for US, I will be attending the Europe VMworld later in the year. VMWorld US has always been the place where all of the most important announcements have been made, with […]
So firstly, I’d just like to say that this is not designed to offend anyone… I have a great respect for VMware but I have noticed a few things recently that have gotten me concerned. Now, I come from a time (not too long ago) when I remember logging onto the VMware web site and was only able to download […]
Okay, so the key thing with any Disaster Recovery solution is to test it to make sure that it works… the unfortunate situation is that most companies will not allow you to go ahead and power down the production systems to confirm that Disaster Recovery will work. This therefore means that we have to come up with solutions to try […]
Released on 15th May 2013 The VMware Whitepaper on ‘Graphics Acceleration in Horizon View Virtual Machines: Deployment Guide’ is available to download now from: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-view-graphics-acceleration-deployment.pdf This document discusses the benefits of the different types of graphics acceleration available for VMware Horizon View virtual machines. In addition, the document provides information on how to implement and troubleshoot each graphics technology.
So this is a bit of a controversial modification to make to the hosts connecting to IBM XIV storage. By default when using the Round Robin multipath policy in VMware (as advised for IBM XIV Storage), the path will only change after receiving 1000 IOPS. The controversy begins around the decision to modify this setting. Some users have experienced significant […]
I came across an interesting situation when performing a Test recovery using VMware SRM, I received the following error: I performed a quick google to try to find a solution to the error message but there wasn’t anything listed, the only suggested solution I could find was to uninstall VMware SRM, reinstall it using a new database… this was not […]
This was a bit of a strange one that I came across when trying to upload the ESXi 5.1 Update 1 iso to an Update Manager in preparation to upgrade an ESXi 4.1 host to the latest version. I was able to select the iso file but then came across the following error message when trying to actually upload it: […]
The final stage of our process is to go ahead and perform a failover and failback of some virtual machines. This should be performed using an unimportant virtual machine… please note that during the recovery and failback process, the source virtual machine will be powered off and therefore there will be a network outage to the virtual machine. Once you […]
The next stage is to test our recovery plan. You should always test the recovery plan prior to performing a recovery (unless you are in a situation where testing isn’t possible). The testing will identify any problems that need to be rectified prior to performing a real failover. Under the ‘Recovery Plans’ section of the SRM portal, click the ‘Protection […]