Month: January 2012
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vSphere 5 Resource Pools Do Not Restrict Simultaneous vMotion
Something I encounter frequently in the field is the use of Resource Pools as nothing more than organizational containers. This is not a good idea as this can have many implications on your VM utilization and performance. As a best practice, you should use the folders feature in the “VMs and Templates” inventory view for…
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vCSA Network Error After Copy
I had been running my home lab’s vCSA under Workstation while I played around with vShield 5 on my small, two server, ESXi cluster. Mainly because I needed the resources free for all the vShield appliances and also because I didn’t want to take the chance of isolating my vCenter while I was testing vShield…
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Horizon Mobile – demos, links and feeds
Since the announcement at VMworld 2011, I have had some interest from my customer base around Horizon Mobile and set up a couple of calls with one of the Product Marketing Managers for Horizon Mobile. She shared some great publicly available information as well as some feeds you may want to follow to stay up…