I’ve been noticing a fair bit of traffic from Russia and I wanted to address this phenomenon. Yes, my native language is indeed Russian. I live in Australia – in Sydney, and have done so since 1991. I was born in Moscow, USSR – my parents have a mixed Russian/Ukranian heritage. My Russian is of [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Free ESXi High Availability
Ask and thou shall receive… A few weeks back, I checked a referring link to my blog and it came from this VMware Communities thread: Just learning about ESXi right now, been a xen camp for a while along with playing with server 2.0. ESXi doesn’t seem to have any fail over features and we [...]
VMFS3 recover-ability
Ever had a datastore go pear-shaped on you? I know I have, back in the days when I didn’t know ESX well. There are really only very few reasons this can happen – a failed replication or you’ve accidentally deleted the VMFS partition. Thankfully, there is a way to restore both virtual machines that have [...]
Small website change
Hi, Just in case you care, I’ve added Google’s Ad-sense as unobtrusively as possible in the sidebar on the right. This is to generate some revenue and to see through clicks, exactly what’s hot in the tech world at the moment. Cheers, Leo
How to deal with failed SVMotions/DMotions
The VMware Communities can be a source of awesome information. And today I found a gem from a user called Argyle where he first states his problem, then finds the solution – all by himself – in one thread! — Scenario: If a SVmotion fails for whatever reason the VM still runs OK, but it [...]
Virtualized apps: Virtual browsers
I was just reading hotware and there’s an awesome link to http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/ where you can download single-file executables for the latest and some historical versions of the most popular browsers out there. These single-execution files are virtualized apps – no installation required. Cheers, Leo
The cost of virtualization
Two times, in the last few days, I’ve been asked how much virtualization costs assuming everything brand new (except rack, UPS, cabling) needed to be bought. Well, that’s hard to quantify because every requirement is different, however I’ll take a basic example from each of the three major vendors to show you the true costs [...]
Deciding between iSCSI RDMs and the Microsoft’s iSCSI initiator
Carlo and Chris, in vmwareinfo.com posted an article on iSCSI RDMs vs individually-assigned storage via the Microsoft iSCSI initiator. There were some good points for and against: RDM Pros: No additional PowerPath software cost No guest software to install. No extra storage management on the guest level Most widely deployed solution for connecting ESX guests directly to LUN. [...]