Since coming back from VMworld this year, I have been hunting around for the dates for next year. I had a lot of fun, met some really interesting people and of course improved my knowledge of the products. However simple google searches weren’t turning up the actual dates, just that it would be sometime in […]
On Wednesday I attended the VMFS3 session entitled “VMware vStorage VMFS-3: Architectural Advances since ESX 3.0”. It was a very interesting little session discussing some of the under-the-covers work through the evolution of VMFS3. However, why am I blogging about it now? Well one thing jumped out at me during the presentation. The speaker (I […]
Dudley Smith has made a small update to his Firewall poster, “port 443 is needed for ESX server-to-server migration and provisioning traffic.” Grab the updated version here. Thanks Dudley.
While attending the HA: Internals and Best Practices session (BC3197) on Tuesday afternoon, I learned something new about HA’s VM health monitoring. With a cluster’s HA, you can set it to monitor the health of your VMs and have them automatically restart if it detects an OS hang-up. To do this it uses a heartbeat […]