So I haven’t done a lot of real time blogging at VMworld this year as I’ve been busy trying to see and soak up as much as possible. It’s not every day that you get access to the likes of Chad Sakacc (VP EMC / VMware alliance) Scott Drummond (EMC – ex VMware performance team) and a whole … [Read more...]
Symantec Application HA for VMware – VMworld 2010
August 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I was lucky enough last week to be involved in a Gestalt IT conference call with Symantec. The conference call was designed to give us all a sneak preview of what Symantec were planning to announce at VMworld 2010 in a couple of weeks. Unfortunately it was under embargo, that is until … [Read more...]
Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Seattle – NEC HYDRAstor
July 27, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Following my return from my first Tech Field Day I have been reading through my notes and reflecting on the vendors I saw when I was in Seattle. Of the vendors I saw the one that surprised me most was NEC, everyone has heard of them but not everyone actually knows what they do or what products … [Read more...]
Gestalt IT Seattle Tech Field Day – Day 2 Summary
July 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
It’s now been a couple of days since the second day of the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day, I’m actually taking the opportunity to write this on the plane on the way back from Seattle. So once again I thought I would do a summary post until I get the chance to write up a detailed post on each … [Read more...]
Gestalt IT Seattle Tech Field Day – Day 1 Summary
July 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
So that is Day 1 of the Seattle Tech Field Day out of the way and what a day it has been. We’ve been out to Microsoft Redmond HQ, or “the temple” as John Obeto calls it. We saw some new products from Veeam and were privileged enough to be the first port of call for a new and very exciting … [Read more...]
Windows Virtual Desktop Access Licensing – What is it?
June 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I try and avoid licensing at all costs, it’s a horrible subject and one that strikes fear in to many. When you add virtualisation in to the mix it tends to get a little more complicated and you often find that the rules change on a reasonably regular basis. I was involved in a discussion today … [Read more...]
SNAPVMX – View your Snapshots at VMFS/virtual disk level
June 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Following a recent implementation of VMware Data Recovery manager we ran into a few issues. We eventually had to kill the virtual appliances due to the issue we were having and as a result we had a couple of virtual machines with outstanding snapshots. These snapshots were taken by VDR and as a … [Read more...]
Storage I/O control – SIOC – VMware DRS for Storage
May 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
Following VMworld in 2009 a number of articles were written about a tech preview session on IO DRS – Providing performance Isolation to VMs in Shared Storage Environments. I personally thought that this particular technology was a long way off, potentially something we would see in ESX 4.5. … [Read more...]
VMware PVSCSI Adapter performance and low I/O Workloads
February 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
I’ve recently been implementing a vSphere deployment and have been looking at the new features introduced as part of Virtual Machine Hardware 7. Obviously one of the major new components is the new Para Virtualised SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter which I wrote about way back in May 2009. When it first … [Read more...]
VMware VMSafe – Are there any actual products yet?
December 10, 2009 by 6 Comments
I was doing some work out of hours the other night on my employers Virtual Infrastructure when bang on time the little red triangles started popping up against certain ESX hosts in vCenter. Why you ask? well it’s AV scanning time on our VM’s of course, or the Sophos summit as we affectionately … [Read more...]