vmware

esXpress Advanced Replication (EAR)

4 years ago

by jayb

We’ve been looking at different backup solutions for our vmware farm. We want something simple, VCB seems too cumbersome right now. Ron McKelvey (or ronzo) over at PHD Technologies disclosed a new feature of the esXpress backup software. So far the name is EAR (esXpress Advanced Replication). [...]

VMware ESX 3.5 upgrade path: Where to start

4 years ago

by jayb

Once I’m ready to make the jump, I’m always looking for good information from people that have already done it. Here’s some good steps to follow when you start your upgrade. VMware’s flagship products ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5 have been available for a little over a month now. When the [...]

Storage VMotion webpage

4 years ago

by jayb

We haven’t upgraded to 3.5 yet, but I’m going to have to check this out once we upgrade. Storage VMotion simplifies array migration and upgrade tasks and reduces I/O bottlenecks by moving running virtual machines to the best available storage resource in your environment. But There was one downside [...]

Calculating VMware HA Failover Capacity

4 years ago

by jayb

Our new ESX cluster has 3 Dell 2950 Servers with 12,16, and 32 GB of ram. From this article I need to look into making them all 32GB. Most readers probably know that VMware High Availability (or VMware HA) is the feature of VMware Infrastructure 3 that allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be [...]

ESX3: Storage Health Check

4 years ago

by jayb

You can easily check the health of your storage by looking under the /proc filesystem in the service console. The directory /proc/vmware/scsi/vmhbaX/ where X refers to your HBA number contains virtual files which correspond to LUNs on that HBA. Using "cat" you can view the contents of these and [...]