Posts tagged "availability"

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What's in PernixData FVP's secret sauce

Jul 31, 2014

Anyone who manages or architects a virtualisation environment battles against storage performance at some stage or another. If you run into compute resource constraints, it is very easy and fairly cheap to add more memory or perhaps another host to your cluster. Being able to add to compute incrementally makes it very simple and cost effective to scale. Networking is similar, it is very easy to...

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What VMware's EOL of vCenter Server Heartbeat means for availability?

Jun 6, 2014

In the ( VMware suggests first of all making your vCenter a VM to be able to take advantage of HA to provide high availability. If you cannot for some reason (and you really need to ask yourself why) run vCenter as a VM and it is/needs to be physical then the only solution is to use a backup solution to be able to restore vCenter if it fails. I wrote a post way back in November 2010, ( Based on...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vSphere App HA

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( vSphere App HA is another new product from VMware in 5.5 to provide application level HA in addition to what is available with vSphere HA. vSphere HA can only recovers VMs when an ESXi hosts dies or restart a VM if the OS h...

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Investigating the health of a vCenter database server

Mar 9, 2011

VMware has released a new ( all about investigting the health of a vCenter database. I've blogged before on the major issue with vCenter being a massive ( "Why vCenter is letting VMware’s side down") and also on some steps to work out ( "Determining where growth is occurring in the vCenter Server database") in the database which is now included in this article. This new KB article does provide...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 5, So, after all that...

Jan 13, 2011

This post is the last in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. This all started as a presentation at the ( meeting, ( where I talked about some of the things you should be thinking about when scaling your virtual infrastructure. Here are the links to all the posts: ( ( ( ( (

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 4, Design Thinking

Jan 10, 2011

This post is the fourth in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I went through some of the considerations specific to VDI and talked about how big your environment can get if you decide to go VDI. In ( I talked about how the virtual hosting environment you built a few years ago may be starting to get a little unwieldy to manage. I suggested: _"Now is the time to paus...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 3, Scaling for VDI

Dec 15, 2010

This post is the third in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I went through some communication ideas to involve more people in the information gathering stage to ultimately be able to put together a better infrastructure So...VDI, the promised solution to all your IT needs. No PCs on desks, thin clients, zero clients, happy clients, automated provisioning, stateles...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 2, Speak to the People

Dec 9, 2010

This post is the second in the series: Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales. In ( I talked about looking at your current environment and seeing where you need to get to by doing a bit of crystal ball future capacity planning combined with understanding your current infrastructure limitations. In this post I'm going to talk about something that isn't done enough in infrastructure proje...

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Designing a Virtual Infrastructure that Scales: Part 1, Taking Stock

Dec 7, 2010

I recently had the privilege of presenting at the ( meeting, ( where I talked about some of the things you should be thinking about when scaling your virtual infrastructure. I've turned part of the presentation into a series of posts, going through some of the aspects you should be considering when your virtual environment demands bigger, better, faster, more! (../2010/12/07/designing-a-virtual...

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Planning for and testing against failure, big and small

Nov 30, 2010

After my ( about vCenter availability I thought I should expand on some other factors related to availability and what you should be thinking about to protect your business against failure. Too often IT solutions are put in place without properly considering what could go wrong and then people get suprised when they do. Sometimes the smallest things can make the biggest difference and you can l...

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