Archive for the ‘VMware’ Category

VMware vExpert Award (2010-6-25)

I am actually completely staggered and blown away that I have been awarded the VMware vExpert award.
You may have noticed that my blog rate dropped a lot and I put that down to having 2 lovely children in 2 years and moving jobs in that time as well.
I have promised myself that I will up [...]

Speed Up SMVI/VMware Snapshots (2010-3-24)

I found that there is a big improvement when running SMVI and selecting the VMware Snapshots option on NFS datastores after adding the following to /etc/vmware/config and rebooting the host:
prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks  = “TRUE”
You will know whether it is working because you will see a .lck file appear in the folder containing the vmx file and snapshots [...]

Back Online (2009-12-15)

To all of those that emailed me to let me know my site was down I say thank you.
I have the displeasure of being hosted by one of the worst providers in the UK and I will now be moving away from them.  Until I have migrated away, I’ll be expecting a multitude of issues, [...]

VMware Partner of the Year 2009 (2009-12-15)

I’m proud to announce that I work in the team that has just been announced as VMware Partner of the Year for 2009.
It has taken a lot of hard work to get to this point in the 9 months I have worked with the team, but it has all been worth it.
Well done to all [...]

NetApp SnapManager VI 2.0 Released (2009-10-29)

NetApp have finally released the latest and greatest version of their SnapManager for VI product.
An essential addition to any infrastructure running both VMware & NetApp it allows guaranteed crash consistent versions of Virtual Machines to be replicated to secondary sights.
New functionality and enhancements include:

Singe file restore (SFR)
A single wizard for creating manual and scheduled backup [...]

NetApp Release Virtual Storage Console (2009-10-27)

NetApp have released the eagerly anticipated Virtual Storage Console:

http://blogs.netapp.com/storage_nuts_n_bolts/2009/10/netapp-virtual-storage-console-vsc-for-esx-ready-for-download.html

It does a lot of useful things for a 1.0 release, but probably the most important are the remediation options for the following:

Storage adapter timeouts
Multipathing settings
NFS settings
Guest OS disk timeout values
Correct misaligned disk partitions

It is available for vSphere ESX & ESXi right now from the [...]