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Archive for December, 2010

Recently I had another one of those great little problems. A VM refused to have its snapshot removed. Not because the snapshot was too big, it just failed.

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Since I see “top 10” lists appear everywhere, I decided to follow in line and produce my own top 10 posts of the year 2010:

1. Performance impact when using VMware snapshots
2. Throughput part 2: RAID types and segment sizes
3. Throughput part 3: Data alignment
4. Throughput part 1: The Basics
5. vscsiStats into the third dimension: Surface charts!
6. VMware HA, slotsizes and constraints
7. Breaking VMware Views sound barrier with Sun Open Storage (part 1)
8. Ye Olde Snapshot
9. VMware Infrastructure Resource Settings Sagas
10. Scaling VMware hot-backups (using esXpress)

My view on things

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The year 2010 certainly has been a very restless year for me. Lost some dear people, gained some new life around me too. The company I worked for, Dataman (www.dataman.nl) went bankrupt. I agreed to be part of a merger where employees from Dataman would merge with iTricity (www.itricity.nl).
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For those of you (like me 🙂 ) who are dying to see… The first episode of Chad’s World is online! Check it out here: Chad’s World

EXCELLENT!!

The issue mentioned in one of my previous blogposts (see ESXi and EMC CLARiiON registration issue) now has a workaround! The problem is that the host profiles of vSphere mix up the vmk0 and vmk1 interfaces, after which the CLARiiON tries to communicate through the wrong VMkernel interface with ESXi.

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Hi all,

I just uploaded a video of my Dutch VMUG 2010 event presentation. No audio, but just a quick fly through the slides:
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From left to right – Duco Jaspars…. uhm forgot the rest, sorry! 😉

The VMUG 2010 surely was once again a great success. Here are some photos for you all to see:
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This time I joined a session with Compellent. I have known them for their smart storage arrays, which are able to move data between storage tiers to optimize speed of regularly used data.

I’m excited to see what they have come up with this year!
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Today Eric delived a great presentation on vSphere troubleshooting. All resources were touched: CPU, Memory, storage and networking. Read the rest of this entry »