May 04
I’ve been asked by many to share this but never got around to it, I have it as my wallpaper for months and still love it! Today, last day of my two week holiday, I figured I would make some time and share it with the world… Just click the pic below to get the 1920×1200 version. Definitely the best VMware logo ever!
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Available now: vSphere 5 Clustering Deepdive. (paper | e-book)
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May 03
I’ve been using Octopus for months internally already as I already discussed in my enterprise social collaboration post and I think it is an awesome tool! I would recommend everyone who is interested in an enterprise level file sharing solution, not unlike dropbox, to sign up for the beta as Octopus is the way to go!
Project Octopus is the successful marriage of Zimbra and Mozy technologies, with some additional code jointly developed by the two teams. Prior to GA release, it will be folded into Horizon, providing a centralized policy and entitlement engine that will broker user access to applications, virtual desktops and data resources. The result will be a simple, seamless end-user experience when accessing work resources across private and public clouds on whatever device the user chooses.
The beta is open to all and will last through VMworld. Due to limited support resources, priority will be placed on customers with active engagements.
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Apr 30
I have had this question multiple times by now so I figured I would write a short blog post about it. The question is if you can share datastores across clusters with vSphere 5.0 and HA enabled. This question comes from the fact that HA has a new feature called “datastore heartbeating” and uses the datastore as a communication mechanism.
The answer is short and sweet: Yes.
For each cluster a folder is created. The folder structure is as follows:
/<root of datastore>/.vSphere-HA/<cluster-specific-directory>/
The “cluster specific directory” is based on the uuid of the vCenter Server, the MoID of the cluster, a random 8 char string and the name of the host running vCenter Server. So even if you use dozens of vCenter Servers there is no need to worry.
Each folder contains the files HA needs/uses as shown in the screenshot below. So no need to worry around sharing of datastores across clusters. Frank also wrote an article about this from a Storage DRS perspective. Make sure you read it!
PS: all these details can be found in our Clustering Deepdive book… find it on Amazon.
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