Was working at a customer site doing some VMware and Microsoft work. Came in around 1pm and couldn’t get to anything. We couldn’t ping any VM’s. I could however ping the ESXi hosts. I used the vSphere client to connect to each host individually and saw that all VMs were turned [Click on Title to Read More]

This information was taken from a NetApp white paper by Bikash Roy Choudhury – TR-3839. I am just pulling out snippets that I thought were very interesting. Not all of it is specific to NetApp, but most of my consulting work is on NetApp.

Deduplication - A VMware datastore has a high level of [Click on Title to Read More]

By Heather Clancy

Most articles about virtualization discuss the technology in the context of “big” business. They are glowing about the potential for “data center consolidation” or “reduced system maintenance expenses.” Or they rave about the prospects for a better disaster recovery plan, better security and extra flexibility for employees.
What about small [Click on Title to Read More]

Probably the biggest surprise of VMWorld 2008 is that they did not announce ESX 4, although the guy running my PowerShell scripting seminar said that certain features in the beta of the VI Toolkit (their platform for using PowerShell) take advantage of ESX 4, like the ability to hot-add RAM to a VM.
 
One of the [Click on Title to Read More]

Chicago, IL
Almost a year ago my phone rang, and on the other end of the receiver was a familiar voice. An old friend of sorts. I was a busy COO working on all the pressing issues of our marketing, sales, consulting and web businesses at the time, and the idea of taking on another [Click on Title to Read More]