Category: Virtualization

April 15, 2012 0

SQL HA Mirroring with vCenter

We’re probably all aware of the benefits of clustering things like SQL Server in order to provide highly available data.…

April 10, 2012 9

One of my most frequently read articles is on how to use MBRAlign to align your virtual machine disks on…

March 27, 2012 8

If you’ve built a virtual infrastructure you’ve probably had to decide whether or not to use Beacon Probing when setting…

March 16, 2012 12

VMware has lots of ways to setup networking on their ESXi hosts. In order to set this up in the…

March 8, 2012 8

It’s important to understand how VMware ESXi servers handle connections to their associated storage arrays. If we look specifically with…

March 7, 2012 0

Emulation and Virtualization are not the same thing. In many cases you’ll hear them used interchangeably but they are different concepts. Emulation…

March 5, 2012 0

Many storage providers have been working with VMware to improve performance of disks by giving VMware access to invoke capabilities…

March 2, 2012 2

vSphere has made it very simple to resize disks. They old days of finding larger disks to put in your…

February 27, 2012 10

I found people have a hard time understanding that a SAN Snapshot and a VMware snapshot are fundamentally different. I…

February 25, 2012 0

VMworld 2011 was held at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Over 25,000 attendees this year. It was held in…