One of the major bottlenecks people run in to when deploying a large amount of hosted desktops over shared storage is disk I/O. There have been a lot of discussions surrounding this topic including RAID level, disk speed, number of spindles, IOPS, etc. Some people are even bypassing using shared storage for VDI and using local storage on virtualization hosts. There are arguments for both sides. Two of the more detailed/entertaining arguments are by Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby. more...
Yellow Bricks has a new interesting article about the pros and cons of SAN Replication versus Storage vMotion. discussion around storage migrations when a SAN is replaced or a migration needs to take place to a different set of disks. Many customers face this at some point. The question usually is what is the best approach? SAN Replication or Storage vMotion… Both have its pros and cons I guess. more...
Were you aware that you can patch a VMware ESXi host with using vCenter? You can - using the "VMware vSphere Host Update Utility". Sander Daems posted a step-by-step guide on how to patch your hosts using this utility. more...
Quest/Vizioncore released a new free tool to manage VMware environments using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). The Management Pack allows Microsoft administrators to manage the VMware environments thanks to: Alert and event management and trending inside the SCOM console Performance monitoring & availability event monitoring Out-of-the-box reports for host and guest metrics Continue at source... more...
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