I found a fantastic article that talks about a free method of monitoring the event viewer for NMV related warnings. I know this functionality should be included in the product, but until it is try using blat as described in this article.
IBM have quietly and I mean quietly announced the release of the new Mid-Enterprise storage range, the XIV storage range has had two press releases here and here.
This is one of the most low key announcements I have ever seen from any vendor about something so important to their hardware product line.
If you want some [...]
Eric Siebert has compiled two more excellent Top Ten lists:
Storage in VMware
Get More Technical with VMware
Not much more to say, just that they are as excellent as I’ve come to expect.
Blocks & Files, an excellent storage related blog, has started a multi-part blog post about IBMs forthcoming storage range – XIV.
I implement IBM storage on a fairly regular basis and have mostly excellent experiences, but some of the ranges are either getting long in the tooth, or are just not as feature rich as they [...]
3Par have announced some back-end storage enhancements that can greatly improve the usability, scalability and performance of VMware VDI. Thin Copy Desktop has some of the following enhancements:
Automated Disktop Image Creation & Management – Storage level snapshots that are VMware VDI aware. This will apparently make desktops available in seconds instead of minutes/tens [...]
I recently came across a problem whereby a Rescan SAN was taking an absolute age, like 15 minutes from the VI Client. Now I love the VI Client, but sometimes it just doesn’t give you enough information when it is doing things. To be fair most of the time the verbose information is [...]
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