VMjuggler–the PowerCLI version
I was tasked with testing the throughput of the vMotion network between two hosts - to see how much of the throughput was / could be used. Now I remembered that there was an application that someone …
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Of all the features available with vSphere - one of the greatest features I like is Storage vMotion, which is described by VMware as follows: In simple terms, vMotion allows you to move your VM from …
Where to Place your VM Swap?
This one has been bothering me lately. Where do you place your Virtual Machine Swap files? There are two options: In the Same Directory as the VM In the Datastore specified by the host. As you can see …
vMotion or VMotion?
Now that vSphere 4.1 is now released one of the new not so exciting features or developments that have emerged but are definitely worth mentioning. VMware has finally made the change. Up until this …
F5 Live App Migration Between Clouds Demo
F5 Announced today that they were providing with their BIG-IP can VMotion from one site to another without downtime. First the VM is sVmotioned from one storage to another, and then Vmotioned, F5 …
One Simultaneous Live Migration
For those of you who have not heard yet, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 was RTM a few days ago. One thing I noticed on a post on the Microsoft Virtualization Blog was a reference …
So Easy - PowerCLI Storage VMotion
I had to to migrate 43 Virtual Machines today, from one Datastore to another. The environment is still not upgraded to vSphere yet. Options I had: sVmotion Plug-in Command line PowerCLI I found the …
Storage DRS and New things at VMWorld 2009
It is less than 1 month to VMWorld 2009 in the Moscone Center in San Francisco (August 31-September 3, 2009). A great conference to start with, and picking up more and more momentum as we draw closer. …
vMotion issues (78%)
In the current series of posts I am writing on running a vSphere lab on ESX 1, 2 and 3, I wanted to set up an NFS shared storage between my 2 ESX hosts to test vMotion. I ran into an interesting issue …
ESX 4.0 Running a VSphere Lab - Part 3
We continue our Saga. Part 2 ended with configuring our cluster and now we go onto shared storage and vMotion. If you looked at the previous topology of my lab you will notice that there was no …