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VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Additional Resources

Scaring yourself and others

Hogwash!First of all, if you're paying for a static IP address, why did your ISP change it? Did the notify you prior to changing it? If not, they can get in deep trouble for that.Second, on today's hardware using virtualization causes little to no noticeable performance hit. ...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Servers, VMware Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

MediaHeal for Virtual Drives 1.0.0932 (Windows)

MediaHeal for Virtual Drives recovers files from damaged virtual disks (.vhd, .vmdk). Repairs corrupted file systems (FAT, NTFS) of virtual drives. Restores data and allows using files without virtual machine. MediaHeal for Virtual Drives scans corrupted file system and creates a copy of the file system with files and folders...

Tags: NTFS, Disk, File System, Microsoft Windows, Virtual Machine, Recoveronix, MediaHeal, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-31

Improve Storage Efficiency and Management With VMware vSphere 4

VMware vSphere 4 dramatically improves storage efficiency while optimizing storage management and providing increased choice of protocol and storage vendors' technology. The presenter of this webcast will describe new storage related features in VMware vSphere 4 and how they work, as well as the benefits of each new capability. The...

Tags: VMware Inc., Virtualization, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-04-14

VI Webstart: Deep Dive Into Storage and Network Configurations

This webcast gives a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the architecture of VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System VMFS; multipathing in Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs; raw disk...

Tags: Disk, Network Configuration, Network, Storage, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-16

Virtual Machine and Storage Integration With VMware and Dell

This webcast take a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the architecture of VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System VMFS; multipathing in Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs; raw disk...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Disk, Storage, VMware Inc., Virtual Machine, Integration, Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-03-16

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked openwhat customers wantCustomers should want open standards and non-proprietary flexibility. They should always have the option of switching vendors with as little stress as possible. Why would any company want to lock itself in? It takes away any incentive for the vendors to...

Tags: clustering, VMware Inc., filesystem clustering, VMFS, file system

Discussion threads 2009-03-03

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

Late last week, an important plate in VMWare's proprietary battle armor was cracked open when Fluid Operations, the company behind the eCloudmanager storage virtualization product open-sourced on the community Google Code site their clean room implementation of VMFS, the clustered locking file system used by VMWare's ESX Server hypervisor...

Tags: Hypervisor, Clustering, File System, VMware Inc., VMFS, Virtualization, Ip storage, Open Source, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-03

VMworld - Dr. Stephen Herrod's keynote

20080917 VMworld Dr Stephen Herrod Keynote I'm not sure why conference directors think that people enjoy walking into a darkened room, facing disorienting flashing lights coming from the front of the room, watching company ads and customer profiles on overhead videos combined with extremely loud, unpleasant, pulsing...

Tags: Data Center, Dr., VMware Inc., vCompute, VMSafe, Data Centers, Storage, Mainframes, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-17

Hyper-V: It's here

Hyper-V: It's hereI Love it ....Quote:"Hyper-V does have one drawback, in that it will only run on the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008, because it makes heavy use of Intel VT-X and AMD-V on chip virtualization acceleration features, which are only present in newer 64-bit CPUs."I have deployed 20...

Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, Hyper-V, 64-bit, VMware Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

The dynamic duo of virtual storage and virtual processing

I just read something published by my friends at Virtual Iron. Their new CEO, Ed Walsh, formally of EMC, presented at the Storage Decisions Conference in San Francisco. It struck me as quite insightful. Here's a segment of what he had to say: The benefits of server virtualization...

Tags: Server, Virtual Iron, Functionality, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions

Partition alignment is a known issue in physical file systems, and its remedy is well-documented. The goal of the testing reported in this paper was to validate the assumption that unaligned partitions also impose a penalty when the partition is a VMware Virtual Machine File System VMware VMFS partition. This...

Tags: VMware Inc., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-10-11