Marvell DragonFly NVCACHE is a write-back write-thru and read I/O cache that works seamlessly out of the box
Archive for the ‘VMware vSphere 5’ Category
Marvell DragonFly NVCACHE – 10-100x Higher IOPS and Lower Latency
Samstag, September 22nd, 2012HP ProLiant Server – VMware Support Matrix
Sonntag, September 16th, 2012
VMware vSphere 5.1 – abaility to balance VMs across datastores in the datastore cluster based on I/O metrics
Montag, September 3rd, 2012
Aggregate storage resources of several datastores in to a single datastore cluster to simplify storage management at scale with vSphere Storage DRS – a intelligent virtual machine placement based on the IO load and available storage capacity of the datastores
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 Manager GUI – to enter cluster maintenance mode can result in clusters entering an inconsistent state
Dienstag, August 28th, 2012 VMware has become aware of an issue where clusters can enter an inconsistent state when placed into cluster maintenance mode using the vSphere Storage Appliance Manager. This inconsistency can lead to virtual machines becoming inaccessible. This Knowledge Base article provides work around steps to take an entire VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) 1.0 cluster offline for maintenance
VMware vSphere 5.1 – what’s new
Dienstag, August 28th, 2012 The new vSphere licensing model for both vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 continues to be based on processor licenses. It eliminates the restrictive physical entitlements of CPU cores and physical RAM per server and has no limitation on the number of VMs or amount of virtual memory (vRAM) on each licensed processor
VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1b | 2012/08/16 | Build 804277
Freitag, August 17th, 2012 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1b Release Notes
VMware I/O Analyzer 1.1 – is a virtual appliance solution for storage performance measurement for large scale ESX clusters deployment
Samstag, April 14th, 2012
VMware I/O Analyzer is a virtual appliance tool that provides a simple and standardized approach to storage performance analysis in VMware vSphere virtualized environments. I/O Analyzer provides a structured way to generate a variety of I/O workloads on the test system(s) including the ability to allow the user to replay an I/O trace that was captured elsewhere
VMware vSphere 5 Desktop Edition – for deploying desktop virtualization
Sonntag, April 8th, 2012 VMware vSphere 5 Desktop Edition provides the full range of features and functionalities of the vSphere Enterprise Plus edition allowing you to achieve scalability, high availability and optimal performance for all of your desktop workloads – and comes with unlimited vRAM entitlement
VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0 – enable Tech Support Mode Timeout
Freitag, April 6th, 2012 Tech Support Mode lets admins and support personnel access the command directly on a ESXi hosts – this can be done via SSH or thru the host console. The security risk is that the console does not shut down automatically by default. There is a simple fix for this however you can set the auto-timeout after a certain time has passed
VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 1 | 2012/03/15 | Build 623860
Samstag, März 17th, 2012 VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 1 Release Notes
DataCore SANmelody 3.0 PSP4 Update 4 – minimum requirements for VMware vSphere 5
Freitag, März 16th, 2012
VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0 – performance expectations and optimizations
Samstag, Februar 25th, 2012 This article provides information about the performance of the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA) New – Build underlying RAID set on the VSA node physical hosts with RAID 5, 6, or 10
VMware vStorage API for SAN Array Integration (VAAI) – enables array offload of key VMware vSphere operations to HP P2000 G3
Montag, Februar 6th, 2012
This white paper is intended SAN administrators who are familiar with the storage features of VMware vSphere 4.1 / 5 and also for those who are using HP P2000 G3 arrays as backend storage for their VMware deployments
