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VMTN Subscription

Nov 7, 2011 Blogs

Do you know this page on vmware.com all too well?

Not being able to access the bits and bytes you need to evaluate a product and install it in your lab is just the worst. Us geeks can’t handle this kind of rejection, VMware!

Please bring back the VMTN Subscription! Josh Atwell has posted a perfectly viable proposal on how this could work. Please show your support here.

Latest fling: VDSPowerCli

Nov 1, 2011 Blogs

VMware Labs presents its latest fling: VDSPowerCli.
PowerShell is a scripting language Microsoft developed to help administrators manage the Windows environment. Third parties can write their own snap-ins (dynamic linked libraries) to implement new commands, which are called cmdlets. With VDSPowerCli, users can use the cmdlets provided by PowerCLI to manage vSphere Distributed Switch(VDS).

Features

VDSPowerCli gives you the ability to manage:

VMware vSphere Distributed Switch

Distributed Port Group

Distributed Port

Download and try out VDSPowerCli!

HP P4000 Multi-Site SAN and VMware vSphere: watch out!

Nov 1, 2011 Blogs

I am digging deeper into HP P4000 (LeftHand) SANs again. This has been a consistent side-project of mine for over two years now. I started using the VSA as a simple, fast and reliable appliance for a shared storage and SAN workshop I’ve delivered at my employers training center, and did a real life implementation of a production environment a while back.

I noticed that when designing a P4000 solution with a number of factors like Multi-Site, stretched HA/DRS clustering, MPIO combined with vSphere, you need to be extra carefull and really kick the tyres of the set-up in a lab to get to know all the gory details. Today, I tested a couple of those factors in the design.

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