Archive for August 28th, 2012

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_logo.jpg   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

vmware_logo.jpg   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