A lot of people try to figure out how HA calculates the failover level. I already did know that VC 2.0 use a slot size based on max cpu and memory for the “worst” VM,
Virtual Center
Getting DRS VMotion info from you database
Ever wanted to know how often DRS is vmotioning your VMs? You can extract this info from the VC database by the following query:
LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
LAB02: Site Recovery Manager (SRM) (Drill Instructor Dan Anderson and Tim Meyers) This Lab was great. When entering class and finding your seat, there was this huge American dude standing in front of class. When taking us through the first powerpoint slides, he was constantly walking from left to right and back again, remembering us […]
Storage VMotion
A few days ago I posted about problems with Storage VMotion. Unfortunately it turned out that these problems appeared on an unsupported configuration. In the comments on my post, Bob Slovick wrote the following: “Bob Slovick // Jan 24, 2008 at 8:26 That post refers to a person that is using the Qlogic HBAs with […]
Changing patch location of VMware Update Manager
While installing Virtual Center for the first time, I accepted most default settings. After I started using VMware Update Manager, I received errors about lack of diskspace. Turns out that all patches are stored in c:\documents and settings\ something \ something. This ofcourse isn’t what I wanted. I could have selected a different location during […]