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RAID 5 and 6 support for VMware VSA

Erik Scholten — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:20:58 +0000

Yesterday VMware announced that it will be supporting RAID 5 and 6 with their Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA). With the release of vSphere 5, VMware also released their VSA, a shared storage solution for the SMB market. VMware VSA uses the local storage in each ESXi server, presents it to the VSA appliance which in [...]

by Erik Scholten

Supported Business Applications on the VMware Platform

Edwin Weijdema — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:13:51 +0000

More and more applications are supported on the VMware Platform, with the release of VMware vSphere 5 the boundaries of virtual machines have been expanded even more. Often we get questions about which applications are supported on the VMware virtual platform. There is a website page where you can search for specific applications and if [...]

by Edwin Weijdema

To partner or not to partner, that’s the question

Erik Scholten — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:40:51 +0000

In my new job I meet many, many vendors and almost all of them have a partner program in which we can achieve bronze, silver, gold, enterprise, premier, business or any other partner status. In reality the meaning of the term ‘Partner’ is interpreted in many different ways. According to Wiki, a business partner is: [...]

by Erik Scholten

Updated VMware support policy on MSCS

Erik Scholten — Wed, 18 May 2011 05:04:29 +0000

August 2010 I wrote an article on support for Exchange CCR clustering on VMware with iSCSI. VMware’s response then was very simple and straight forward. Exchange CCR clustering on VMware is not supported on iSCSI! When asked if VMware had plans to change this support issue in the future the response was promising. “The Exchange [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware View feature request

Erik Scholten — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:29:40 +0000

Last week I visited a new project at which the client wants to virtualize their desktops. During the kickoff the client mentioned that they use a variety of applications, clients and operating systems and want to deliver all these desktop flavors to their users. Nothing new so far. But this variety of clients and operating [...]

by Erik Scholten

Support Alert: Issue with IBM hardware running ESX/ESXi 4.1 (update)

Erik Scholten — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:35:26 +0000

A few minutes ago On November 12th VMware issued a Support Alert regarding an issue that affects users with IBM hardware, running ESX/ESXi 4.1. The symptoms are mentioned below. When using IBM x3650 M3 or BladeCenter HS22V servers, you may experience these symptoms: HBAs stop responding Other PCIs devices may also stop responding You see [...]

by Erik Scholten

vCenter server performance charts fail

Erik Scholten — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:51:11 +0000

In order to reach everyone possible, VMware put out an alert via the VMware toolbar yesterday, repeating the message with regards to the issue users of VMware vCenter Server may experience with performance charts after the time change over the past weekend. So, again: Users of VMware vCenter Server may notice the following since the [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMware vSphere 4.1 and View 4.5 launch news

Erik Scholten — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:09:33 +0000

Last Thursday we attended the VMware vSphere 4.1, vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 launch event at Amerongen (NL). We already brought you all news regarding vSphere and vCenter 4.1 and View 4.5 but we heard some interesting thing we would like to share with you. VMware View 4.5 With VMware View 4.5 VMware has changed [...]

by Erik Scholten

Bad network performance on new ESX host (part 2)

Sander Martijn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:53:49 +0000

Some weeks ago I posted an article about some bad network performance when moving VMs to a new ESX host. Last week I got an e-mail which announced some updates and among it was the one promised to us by the engineer that helped us with our problem. Description of the patch is exactly what we where [...]

by Sander Martijn

Exchange CCR cluster on VMware with iSCSI

Erik Scholten — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:09:37 +0000

A few weeks ago I got an assignment to review a colleague’s infrastructure design based on VMware. The design was fine (because they used my design document as template ) but one thing triggered me. There was a special port group on one of the virtual switches names ‘MSCLUSTER’. No problem so far but I [...]

by Erik Scholten